On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 04:38:04PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2026/07/03 17:32, Marc Espie wrote: > > See what postgresql-server does, there is a WHOLE pkg_add annotation > > devoted to it, named @ask-update.
I had forgotten about ask-update, thanks for pointing it out. > > pkg_create(1) has some documentation. > > > > Cliff notes: > > - in interactive mode it displays a message if the update crosses a version > > boundary > > - it will update in non-interactive mode > ^ will not update in non-interactive mode > > however, on 7.9 -> 8.0, you'll be left with a fairly broken set of > packages if you deny the update and have py3-lmdb installed. OTOH databases/py-lmdb has never been used by the ports tree, so I'm not sure how much we should care about it. Do you remember why you imported it? Pending some actual migration reports, I'd like to postpone the decision of adding @ask-update. Users could probably also benefit from a current.html entry, which could very well be enough given the availability of mdb_dump-0.9 in the package and the loud MESSAGE. -- jca
