Re: Where do I find the changelog of a port package?

2013-11-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 28, 2013, at 04:45, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: Is there a canonical way to get access to a changelog? tl;dr: no Ideally, if a port has one, the maintainer has installed it in ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}. However, not all software developers write changelogs; not all ports whose software

Re: Where do I find the changelog of a port package?

2013-11-29 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Nov 29, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 28, 2013, at 04:45, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: Is there a canonical way to get access to a changelog? tl;dr: no Ideally, if a port has one, the maintainer has installed it in ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}. However, not all software

Where do I find the changelog of a port package?

2013-11-28 Thread Kurt Pfeifle
Sometimes I'm interested in finding out the differences between the old and the new-to-be installed version of a port. Is there a canonical way to get access to a changelog? I'm interested in the upstream changelog within the sources (should there be one) as well as in the changes the port

Re: Where do I find the changelog of a port package?

2013-11-28 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2013-11-28 11:45, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: Sometimes I'm interested in finding out the differences between the old and the new-to-be installed version of a port. Is there a canonical way to get access to a changelog? I'm interested in the upstream changelog within the sources (should there