www/mediawiki deletion not mentioned in UPDATING
Mike Brown
mike at skew.org
Fri May 31 06:44:26 UTC 2013
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > 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.
OK, thanks. I didn't realize port moves were ordinarily not mentioned.
> > 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.
Thanks.
I feel like this should be covered in the Handbook.
I will write to doc at freebsd.org about it.
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