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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
Subject: Re: www/mediawiki deletion not mentioned in UPDATING
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Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> writes:

> Last month, I upgraded my www/mediawiki installation, so I ended up with 
> version 1.19.x.
>
> Now (after updating my ports tree), I want to upgrade my installation again, 
> mainly just to pick up a patch to one of its dependencies, but portmaster 
> won't do it; it's telling me that www/mediawiki was recently deleted, moved to 
> mediawiki-119. Nothing was written about this in UPDATING. Please consider 
> this message a request to mention it.

It would be more appropriate in MOVED rather than UPDATING. 
And I'd be surprised if it weren't already there.

> I'm asking about this because it's not entirely clear to me what I'm supposed 
> to do in order to properly do the upgrade. I'm guessing I could do this:
>
> portmaster -o www/mediawiki-119 www/mediawiki
>
> Would that be sufficient? Anything I should watch out for?

Probably not. If there were, *then* I'd expect an entry in UPDATING.

> What if I want to upgrade to www/mediawiki-120? Should I do that afterward?

You should do that *instead* if you want it. Upgrade instructions from
upstream are included, and the port will point you at them.