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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:13:29 +0200
From:      David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        849372@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposal for new UPDATING format
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2010/8/19 Andres Perera <andres.perera@zoho.com>:
> The idea is to add a VERSION field so that automated tools can display
> the entries prior performing the actual upgrade.
>
> Filtering by date isn't exact enough, so the new field will correspond
> with the first version of the port were the "problem" occurs.
>
> Without getting into implementation details, the port management tools
> could use a line similar to::
>
> % pkg_updating clang-1.2
>
> Matching the version with whatever it's installing...
>

Not a bad idea, the problem is that the file UPDATING does not speak
always for a package, sometime it's just some information that are not
specific to a package.

-- 
Demelier David



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