Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:33:30 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can portaudit report a fixed date/version? Message-ID: <20041019213329.GB45466@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20041019163753.U74644@xeon.unixathome.org> References: <20041017201037.V55729@xeon.unixathome.org> <20041019145952.GA22119@madman.celabo.org> <20041019163753.U74644@xeon.unixathome.org>
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:41:01PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > My thoughts were that an additional field could easily be added It could be easily added, but I'm not sure that it would be easily maintained. Today, we can fairly accurately predict what currently non-existent versions of the port will be fixed when we fill out <affects>. That means that in the vast majority of cases, when the port has been fixed, no one needs to do anything special: the new version automatically shows up as not affected. If we make this explicit instead, then it is extra work. Additionally, there is the evil of duplicating data, which I mostly want to avoid. But, why not throw out a strawman example of what you mean so that we can get more discussion going about it? > that indicated whether or not a fix had been applied to the Ports > Collection. This would enabled portaudit to report immediately. > > > A tool such as portaudit could compute whether a fix is available or > > not for you. It might be a nice feature. > > It would be a useful feature. Maybe the portaudit author will add it. It is mostly trivial. I can, however, think of at least one edge case where it is *not* trivial--- e.g. the `fix' involves a change in the package name. > It would save many admins quite a bit of time. How so? (serious question) Cheers, -- Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org
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