Batch replace for livecheck.type and svn.revision

David Evans devans at macports.org
Mon Aug 31 07:55:13 PDT 2009


Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2009, at 06:23, snc at macports.org wrote:
>
>> Revision: 56639
>>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/56639
>> Author:   snc at macports.org
>> Date:     2009-08-31 04:23:23 -0700 (Mon, 31 Aug 2009)
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> update version, ticket #20951. add modeline, update livecheck
>
> [snip]
>
>> -livecheck.check         regex
>> +livecheck.type          regex
>
> Rather than make everyone update this themselves, which will take
> forever, I propose I do a batch find and replace in all ports,
> changing livecheck.check to livecheck.type and svn.tag to
> svn.revision. This will make these ports incompatible with MacPorts
> 1.7.1 and earlier. Any objections? Any other batch changes I could be
> making now that MacPorts 1.8.0 is out?
>
>
+1 for the batch change but I suggest that a message be sent to
macport-users and something appropriate added on the  web site/wiki
to explain the resultant error on 1.7.1 and the need to upgrade to 1.8.0
to try and head off the inevitable rash of bug reports that
will arise.



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