Re: branch updates - strategy change?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-10-08 at 13:01 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I'm now using bob on my build machines (domU per version/cpu, for
> versions I'm running, and the next one I'll upgrade to), and am seeing a
> lot of builds/changes on 2026Q3.  I more or less suspect this is an
> artifact of "bulk rebuilds always" vs "pkg_rr rebuilds if a dependency
> version changes".
>
> After cvs update along the branch, and a bob clean/bob build, I see that
> there is a vast amount of packages to rsync, and then "pkgin ug" wants
> to "refresh" about 200 packages and upgrade:
>
>  expat-2.8.5 pcre2-10.49 png-1.6.59
>
> These are pretty obviously micros with security fixes (rather than fixes
> as patches).
>
>
> I wonder if updates to the branch are different, or if this is just the
> usual bulk practice being super aggressive about rebuilding.

expat was bumped on the branch, and given it has around 21,000 
dependencies then yes I'd expect it to cause a large number of 
rebuilds and refreshes.

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