Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:20:31 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent ports removal Message-ID: <4EC3724F.4030006@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4EC2B720.4000605@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20111109124325.17efc0d1.stas@deglitch.com> <20111109222435.GD92221@azathoth.lan> <20111110110637.GA3514@hades.panopticon> <4EBCC587.10701@FreeBSD.org> <20111111100708.GA24126@hades.panopticon> <20111111124012.3ec48cb3.stas@deglitch.com> <20111111213817.GB8896@lonesome.com> <4EBD9E6F.3040708@delphij.net> <4EBDA077.5070105@FreeBSD.org> <4EC2B720.4000605@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 11/15/2011 11:01, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 11/11/2011 22:23, Doug Barton wrote: >>> By its >>>> nature, deprecated ports tends not to be updated for long time, port >>>> tools like portmaster, portupgrade will not even see it because no >>>> PORTREVISION bump happen. > >> portmaster -L will warn you about ports marked >> DEPRECATED/FORBIDDEN/IGNORE/BROKEN if you run it against an updated >> ports tree. One area where we actually can improve here is to also put >> this information in the INDEX. I have an idea for that, just haven't >> been able to put the time into making it happen. > > How about something like the attached? Rather than adding to the INDEX, > this appends DEPRECATED, FORBIDDEN, IGNORE, BROKEN and EXPIRATION_DATE > values to pkg-message, creating one if the port doesn't already have it. Won't work for my use case, which is 'portmaster -L --index-only' -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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