* On 2026-03-01 at 19:44 GMT, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote:
Am Sun, 1 Mar 2026 19:05:02 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>:You don't need to bump PKGREVISION for build fixes. You only need to bump when the binary package changes, and if the build is failing then there's no previous binary package.OK, this is assuming that I don't mess up my patch and potentially change a build that worked before, of course. But I was unsure about a revision change being good for bulk builds to know if they should try again. That is done based on revision control changes, then?
At least bob and pbulk both work on comparing what is stored in the binary package (pkg_info -qb) against the sources you are building from, so anything from a simple typo change in DESCR to a pkgrev bump will result in a rebuild for that package, as well as any package that depends on it either directly or indirectly.
pkgin will always upgrade a package that has changed, regardless of whether its version has been bumped or not.
So at least for all of those tools a revbump or not makes zero difference, but we still do them for other tools that simply compare version numbers, as well as for making it clear to users when a particular package has a fix.
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