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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