On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Mihai Moldovan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > An example would be a "check and try update" task that would: do a > > livecheck and if found to be old then automatically try to do the > > update: change the version, download the distfile, update the checksums > > in the Portfile, try to upgrade using -s -k to specify from source and > > to keep stuff around if successful. > > Just a thought on this particular item... maybe it's just me OCDing, but I > don't > think a procedure like this should be sanctioned. Blindly updating like > this is > dangerous, because you run into problems with also updated dependencies, > which > you might not even see. I could see it making a copy of the Portfile, rather than updating in place. As such it becomes a quick test to see how much work updating will be. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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