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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:00:08 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beat_G=E4tzi?= <beat@chruetertee.ch>
To:        Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Project ideas page: UPDATING parser and displayer
Message-ID:  <4719DFB8.405@chruetertee.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20071020102351.GB2387@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org>
References:  <4719CE07.5000904@chruetertee.ch> <20071020102351.GB2387@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org>

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Hans Lambermont wrote:
>>  I wrote a small script that parses and displays entries from
>> /usr/ports/UPDATING: pkg_updating
> 
> Great work ! I just tried it, and it works really nice.

Thanks!

> I assume the goal is to make it available for the ports upgrade system,
> for that pkg_updating needs the install date of the old port. I'm not
> sure where this is available. Do you ?

I think this information is not available yet. For the ports upgrade
system, perhaps it's better to use a format in UPDATING like
"gettext<0.16 -> gettext>=0.16" (as mentioned on the idea page) instead
of working with the installation date.

> ps. I first tried 'pkg_updating apache', and got no complaint (about a
> missing -p).

Yes, this is a bug. I will correct this.

Beat



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