Why some depends rebuild even when a package exists?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 00:39 +0400, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> I've met the problem not once.
> 
> Now I'm building a KDE port.
> % ./tinderbuild -b 6.1-FreeBSD x11/yakuake
> 
> And as i can see tinderbox builds qt as dependency:
> % ps ax
> ...
> /pnohang 7200 /tmp/make.log4 qt-3.3.6_2 make build
> ...
> 
> But already there is a qt package built at May 3:
> % ls -la /space/packages/6.1-FreeBSD/x11-toolkits/qt-3.3.6_2.tbz
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21  3 may 02:35
> /space/packages/6.1-FreeBSD/x11-toolkits/qt-3.3.6_2.tbz ->
> ../All/qt-3.3.6_2.tbz
> % ls -la /space/packages/6.1-FreeBSD/All/qt-3.3.6_2.tbz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13383467  3 may 02:35
> /space/packages/6.1-FreeBSD/All/qt-3.3.6_2.tbz
> 
> So why tinderbox rebuilds it?

Without seeing the port, the Tinderbox-generate Makefile, and the make
logs, it's impossible to know.  My guess is that one of the things that
qt depends on had its version change, and thus all of its dependencies,
including qt, had to be rebuilt.

Joe

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