Proposal for new UPDATING format

[David DEMELIER]

2010/8/19 Andres Perera <andres.perera at 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