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Date:      Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:50:24 +0300
From:      Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr>
To:        Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade ideas page
Message-ID:  <44892840.6020800@ebs.gr>
In-Reply-To: <44882F99.1040100@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4485DBF5.3070705@FreeBSD.org>	<20060607121927.GA19923@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org>	<20060607174640.GE81931@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <44882F99.1040100@FreeBSD.org>

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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



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