On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:52:05 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> I just thought of this one.  Sometimes devs love to change ebuilds 
> without bumping them.  That's annoying; a bug gets fixed and you don't 
> know about it because "emerge -u" doesn't find any newer version or 
> revision.

That's a bad ebuild/dev. The rule is that the ebuild is not bumped if the
change does not affect the installed files, i.e. it fixes an
installation error,because then you don't want to rebuild it if it's
already installed. If the installed files are different, the ebuild
should be bumped.

One special case of this is that some upstream's update their packages
without bumping them, so the ebuild does not change, only the manifest,
but the installed files do.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context!