UPDATING - needs updating?

[Vizion]

On Monday 21 November 2005 12:57,  the author Ion-Mihai Tetcu contributed to 
the dialogue on-
 Re: UPDATING - needs updating?: 

>On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:13:35 -0500
>
>Wesley Shields <wxs at csh.rit.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:39:55AM -0800, Vizion wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I have noticed that some earlier notices relating to some ports  in
>> > UPDATING appear as though they have been made out of data by newer
>> > notices (e.g  kde 20050804 seems to replace 20050324) and sometimes
>> > the instructions conflict with one another. While I presuime the
>> > latest notice always takes precedence I wonder if it would be
>> > possible to have notices that are no longer current removed from
>> > UPDATING.
>>
>> I think this is probably a bad idea, simply from a historical
>> perspective.  If I wanted to chase down a bug that was available only
>> for a specified time period I would like to know the corresponding
>> UPDATING entries.
>
>there are enough old machines out there for which the "old"
>instructions still apply; in some cases it might not be able to update
>w/o intermediary steps.

Interesting perspective..

You have got me wondering if a web interface could be used to drag relevant 
data from UPDATING based upon the output from pkg_info?

That could be another practical tool that might come out of the GoFigure 
project.

david

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