From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 22 08:24:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADB41065670 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6EA8FC08 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E597E837 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:24:23 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:24:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906220024.22683.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:24:25 -0000 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