> On May 23, 2025, at 06:22, Tomoaki AOKI <junch...@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2025 04:25:45 -0700
> "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <free...@gushi.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> pkg has a feature, pkg updating, which basically requires you to have a
>> checked out ports tree.
>>
>> Are there any plans to make this function possible without having a ports
>> tree checked out, by baking the “UPDATING” data into the repo file somehow?
>>
>> -Dan
>
> You can read and download via:
>
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/UPDATING
Right now, that url gives me a 4251-line empty file. (For debugging, it says
blob: blob: 3d4a6146cc436631d07cf69b780ea05e8f3fdbb4). I’ve tried refreshing
multiple times. Maybe it’s related to the Anubis thing? I grabbed a
screenshot of the top of the page just in case someone wants to contact me
off-list.
Anyway, yes, I know how to find the file, but that wasn’t my point.
When dealing with postgres version issues earlier, people kept telling me “this
is why you should read UPDATING” and it seems that a more useful way to
encourage people to do that, is to make it so pkg can display it to you without
needing you to run external commands. Perhaps pkg could even notice (similar
to how freebsd-update notices a major version change) that you’ve jumped a
quarterly branch and offer to display it.
-Dan
