On Jan 13, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> But there was no reason to increase the port's revision, since the user's 
> existing variants will be preserved in the upgrade. Regardless whether the 
> user had the atlas or accelerate or openblas variant of octupus 5.0.1_0 
> installed, they will have exactly the same variant of octopus 5.0.1_1 
> installed after the upgrade. Increasing the revision only causes lots of 
> unnecessary rebuilding, for the buildbots and for users.

I should correct myself, and say it causes unnecessary rebuilding or 
downloading and reinstalling for users. The buildbots will have to rebuild 
regardless whether the revision is changed, because the variants are changed, 
but that's fine.


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