can portaudit report a fixed date/version?

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:41:01PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> My thoughts were that an additional field could easily be added

It could be easily added, but I'm not sure that it would be easily
maintained.  Today, we can fairly accurately predict what currently
non-existent versions of the port will be fixed when we fill out
<affects>.  That means that in the vast majority of cases, when the
port has been fixed, no one needs to do anything special: the new
version automatically shows up as not affected.  If we make this
explicit instead, then it is extra work.  Additionally, there is the
evil of duplicating data, which I mostly want to avoid.

But, why not throw out a strawman example of what you mean so that we
can get more discussion going about it?

> that indicated whether or not a fix had been applied to the Ports
> Collection.  This would enabled portaudit to report immediately.
>
> > A tool such as portaudit could compute whether a fix is available or
> > not for you.  It might be a nice feature.
> 
> It would be a useful feature.

Maybe the portaudit author will add it.  It is mostly trivial.  I can,
however, think of at least one edge case where it is *not* trivial---
e.g. the `fix' involves a change in the package name.

> It would save many admins quite a bit of time.

How so?  (serious question)

Cheers,
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Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio
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