Re: Adding comment to UPDATING file

[Matthew Seaman]

Jerry wrote:

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:46:11 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

I find it's also a good idea to add a warning about such things to
any pkg_message printed out at install time.

Thanks! I was considering the pkg_message idea; however, users of
Portupgrade or other port maintenance tools often do not see the
messages printed out out the end of the installation. I will be
including a message though.

portmaster saves up all the pkg_messages and displays them at the end
of the update session.  I believe moves are afoot to add similar behaviour
to some other ports management tools.

Also:


is a command that should be more widely known and used.

pkg_info -Dx portname

Maybe they should add an addendum to the Porter's Handbook
describing that.

If you send an e-mail to freebsd-...@... or send-pr with some suggested text,
it or something similar is fairly likely to be incorporated.  Even better if
you send a patch against the Docbook sources, but on the whole just having
some suggested text to work with is acceptable.  Although right now is maybe
not the best time as I think the docs slush preparatory to 7.2-RELEASE is
imminent, if not already here...

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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