[25148] trunk/base/ChangeLog

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Revision: 25148
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/25148
Author:   jberry at macports.org
Date:     2007-05-14 21:46:08 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007)

Log Message:
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Update changelog. Note that port(1) manpage still needs update to describe variant descriptions

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Modified: trunk/base/ChangeLog
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--- trunk/base/ChangeLog	2007-05-15 04:41:28 UTC (rev 25147)
+++ trunk/base/ChangeLog	2007-05-15 04:46:08 UTC (rev 25148)
@@ -33,7 +33,28 @@
     
     - Tighten checking of port name in depspecs. neither + nor / is allowed.
       (jberry r24929, r24934, r24940).
+      
+    - Restore ability for portindex lines to contain carriage returns, allowing
+      fields such as descriptions to contain line breaks. Note that any portindex
+      containing such entries will not be readable by a recent version of macports.
+      (jberry r25146)
+      
+    - Add support for descriptions on variants:
+		 * The syntax follows the syntax for variant depends, etc.
+		 * Descriptions for variants are entirely optional
+		 * The change to the portindex format to allow variant descriptions
+		   should be backwards compatible. Variant descriptions are stored,
+		   keyed by the variant name, in a new portinfo array named "variant_desc".
+   
+		Example:
 
+			variant myvariant description "This variant does this and that" {
+				configure.args-append   --do-this --do-that
+			}
+			
+		(jberry r25147)
+	
+
 Release 1.4.40 (7-May-2007, tagged at r24909 by jberry):
 
     - Note the bump in version naming. To leave ourselves lots of room in our versioning

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