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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:31:22 +0000
From:      Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UPDATING
Message-ID:  <50D83D0A.3030105@onetel.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEAhP2gLYXHwe4yUDjOSDqGJwXcxUHfya2X6Hv7EE7y2LmqsLg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 24/12/2012 06:52, Anton Afanasyev wrote:
> I second this.
> While it may have made sense to include the "rebuild all ports. Here's an
> example of how" initially, including three versions of the rebuilding
> commands is a tad too much, and so replacing the wordiness with a simple
> "ACTIONS:" tag kind of thing would make the message much more concise.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Кулешов Алексей<rndfax@yandex.ru>  wrote:
>
>> Good morning, everyone!
>>
>> Instead of thousand words like these:
>>
>> 20121211:
>>    AFFECTS: users of graphics/ImageMagick
>>    AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org
>>
>>    The ImageMagick library has been updated to version 6.8.0-7.  Please
>>    rebuild all ports that depend on it.
>>
>>    If you use portmaster:
>>          portmaster -w -r ImageMagick
>>    If you use portupgrade:
>>          portupgrade -fr graphics/ImageMagick
>>    If you use pkgng with binary packages:
>>          pkg install -fR graphics/ImageMagick
>>
>>
>> may be it would be useful for port upgrade programs to see information
>> like this:
>>
>> 20121211:
>>    AFFECTS: users of graphics/ImageMagick
>>    AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org
>>    ACTION: REBUILD_DEPS
>>
>>    ... some words for interested one ...

Could I put in a request as a lowly user to keep the wording? For 
various reasons I haven't used any of the above commands (still on 9.0R 
with default packages and tinderbox before that) and there have been a 
lot changes recently. Keeping the wording helps those of us who aren't 
yet up to speed with the new systems.

thanks

Chris



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