Recent ports removal

[Doug Barton]

On 11/15/2011 11:01, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 22:23, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> By its
>>>> nature, deprecated ports tends not to be updated for long time, port
>>>> tools like portmaster, portupgrade will not even see it because no
>>>> PORTREVISION bump happen.
> 
>> portmaster -L will warn you about ports marked
>> DEPRECATED/FORBIDDEN/IGNORE/BROKEN if you run it against an updated
>> ports tree. One area where we actually can improve here is to also put
>> this information in the INDEX. I have an idea for that, just haven't
>> been able to put the time into making it happen.
> 
> How about something like the attached?  Rather than adding to the INDEX,
> this appends DEPRECATED, FORBIDDEN, IGNORE, BROKEN and EXPIRATION_DATE
> values to pkg-message, creating one if the port doesn't already have it.

Won't work for my use case, which is 'portmaster -L --index-only'



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