DEPRECATE and a master/slave port

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Mon Aug 16 22:42:47 UTC 2010


--On Monday, August 16, 2010 14:09:29 -0700 Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> On 8/13/2010 11:25 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I want to DEPRECATE security/barnyard.  It's a master port.  The slave
>> is security/barnyard-sguil.  Is it sufficient to DEPRECATE and EXPIRE
>> the master? Or do I need to do that to the slave as well?
>
> The simplest and best way to answer this question is to test it. Make
> your changes in the master, then go into the slave port and type make.
>

Thanks, Doug.  That confirms for me that the slave port is deprecated 
automatically when its master port is deprecated.

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