Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:25:02 +0300 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@freebsd.org> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster: print /usr/ports/UPDATING on update Message-ID: <AF2XlJwkyRabE7/XEpXHY2VDMLQ@QsmfhJNucgI88DfvPJdT1/nyboE> In-Reply-To: <4D15D275.6000308@gmail.com> References: <4D15D275.6000308@gmail.com>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline David, good day. Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:16:05PM +0100, David Demelier wrote: > Each entry in UPDATING is like "AFFECTS: users of net-mgmt/flowd" so if > an update of net-mgmt/flowd is available and a *recent* entry in > UPDATING talks about then print the message. > > This can prevent a lot of breakage and useless noise on lists. What do > you think ? I think that the attached script is a good starting point. Comments are welcome ;)) And, for sure, it will be good to enforce the AFFECTS line to contain the full port origin (or shell glob of it). This can be trivially done as the script that will periodically check the UPDATING and mail people about troubles. I can write it if this will be really needed. -- Eygene Ryabinkin ,,,^..^,,, [ Life's unfair - but root password helps! | codelabs.ru ] [ 82FE 06BC D497 C0DE 49EC 4FF0 16AF 9EAE 8152 ECFB | freebsd.org ] --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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