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Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: portupgrade ideas page
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Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Fernan Aguero wrote:
>> So, to get this functionality, we have to change
>> UPDATING first to add more information (at least PORTVERSION
>> and PORTREVISION) to each entry.
>>
>> Time for a RFC about UPDATING? 
> 
> UPDATING is quite informal to parse in a current state.
> Well, for many entries it's possible to find suitable ports, but for few
> of them it's hard or impossible.
> E.g.:
> AFFECTS: users of PHP
> AFFECTS: All GNOME users

Right. Perhaps vuxml & portaudit can be used as a basis for a proper 
solution.

Cheers,

Panagiotis