format of ports/UPDATING

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Fri Aug 13 16:10:08 PDT 2004


Dan Langille wrote:

> If changes to the format of /usr/ports/UPDATING are going to be made, 
> I'd
> appreciate knowing in advance.  FreshPorts now parses this file and
> includes the results under the relevant port[s], if that can be
> determined.
>
> We are doing pretty well so far.  FreshPorts can handle the shell globs
> which have been used, although it could not handle the (x11/kdebase3)
> which occurred in the most recent commit.
>
> The perl script is available at:
>
>  http://beta.freshports.org/process_updating.pl
>
> but you'll have to comment out some calls if you're going to get it to 
> run
> outside the FreshPorts environment.

Did anyone ever say `thank you' for your continued support of the 
FreeBSD project and your very useful tools?

THANK YOU
-Oliver



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