Poutupgrade unsafe

Robert Marella rmarella at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 09:08:53 PDT 2006


On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:51:06 -0300
Henry Lenzi <henry.lenzi at gmail.com> wrote:

> > A nice portupgrade feature would be to grok UPDATING, and present
> > you with any such notes before the upgrade occurs.
> >
> > Mike
> 
> I fully agree. It's not the best solution to have an UPDATE file that
> is very large and that is not integrated in the updating process.
> UPDATE should be machine-readable, for starters.
> 
> Henry

I do not see a problem. A script updates my port tree every night and
the last line of the script is:

head -n 50 /usr/ports/UPDATING

When I read my mail in the morning with my first cup of coffee...well,
I read my mail.

Robert


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