www/mediawiki deletion not mentioned in UPDATING

wen heping wenheping at gmail.com
Thu May 30 13:39:27 UTC 2013


2013/5/30 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org>

> Mike Brown <mike at skew.org> writes:
>
> > Last month, I upgraded my www/mediawiki installation, so I ended up with
> > version 1.19.x.
> >
> > Now (after updating my ports tree), I want to upgrade my installation
> again,
> > mainly just to pick up a patch to one of its dependencies, but portmaster
> > won't do it; it's telling me that www/mediawiki was recently deleted,
> moved to
> > mediawiki-119. Nothing was written about this in UPDATING. Please
> consider
> > this message a request to mention it.
>
> It would be more appropriate in MOVED rather than UPDATING.
> And I'd be surprised if it weren't already there.
>

It is in MOVED

wen


>
> > I'm asking about this because it's not entirely clear to me what I'm
> supposed
> > to do in order to properly do the upgrade. I'm guessing I could do this:
> >
> > portmaster -o www/mediawiki-119 www/mediawiki
> >
> > Would that be sufficient? Anything I should watch out for?
>
> Probably not. If there were, *then* I'd expect an entry in UPDATING.
>
> > What if I want to upgrade to www/mediawiki-120? Should I do that
> afterward?
>
> You should do that *instead* if you want it. Upgrade instructions from
> upstream are included, and the port will point you at them.
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