Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:24:21 -0800 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? Message-ID: <200906220024.22683.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr>
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On Sunday 21 June 2009 10:38:39 danny wrote: > At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. > The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to > check if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes > written in that file ? /usr/sbin/pkg_updating, but it's flaky since /usr/ports/UPDATING is human written. It's a school example of a file that should really be XML: human readable/writeable and machine parseable, but it's not. So we end up with entries like: AFFECTS: users of Japanese and Chinese fonts AFFECTS: users of linux Fedora 8 infrastructure ports AFFECTS: users of Tcl/Tk which cannot ever be translated to ports by a machine. -- Mel
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