On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> > * Metapackages that were using NO_BUILD will be PKGREVISION-bumped so that
> >  they will be rebuilt, now that bl3-wrapper are working correctly again.
>
> It would be really nice if someone would go and develop a decent notion to
> indicate some "this pkg needs rebuild for some weird reason outside the pkg"
> action, which is not what PKG(!)REVISION is intended for.

If it's a revision to change and/or fix what is in the binary *pkg*, then
exactly what's the difference?

This is the part that hasn't been explained too clearly to me.  Currently,
PKGREVISION is bumped for any operationally impacting change to a binary
package.  Whether that was its original intent or not, that's how it's been
used for well over a year now (maybe two?).

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