How to handle upgrade of libnotify when cups-client-1.4.8 is marked as broken

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 28 20:57:18 UTC 2011


On 8/28/2011 11:33 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> Apparently, this have to be written explicitely. Users, who upgrade
> their ports, are not presented with the configuration dialog.

The dialog is re-presented to the user if the quantity of options has
changed. That's a feature. See my previous message on a way to make this
feature work for us in this situation.

> Using
> automated tool like portupgrade, all you get is a list of the failed
> ports. After that, user needs to start investigation, spending his
> own time and possibly time of the people on list.
> 
> Ignoring or removing the option makes the ports upgrade without user
> intervention.

Neither of those is a valid option (pardon the pun). The primary goal is
to avoid breaking the user's system, not to make the upgrade process go
through without human intervention. Imagine a scenario where the user
has a critical dependency on cups being compiled with gnutls. Not
upgrading the currently installed (and working) version is a totally
valid outcome. Silently upgrading cups to a version without gnutls makes
the upgrade process "successful," but with a very poor outcome for the
user.


Doug

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