* On 2025-11-07 at 12:48 GMT, Robert Bagdan wrote:
6) After the recent curl update, I noticed that pkgin updated packages
from the quarterly binary repo that depended on curl, even though
their PKGREVISION hadn’t changed.
How did pkgin know to update those as well?
I can't answer the NetBSD-specific questions, but pkgin will have upgraded packages that depend on curl because the default operation of pbulk is to rebuild any packages where any of their dependencies have changed, regardless of PKGREVISION bumps. This will mean that their BUILD_DATE will be changed, and pkgin will note that as a refresh and update to the newer build.
This avoids many issues where revbumps are not handled correctly, where in the past users of binary package repositories would frequently run into problems.
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