In D41048#943752, @eduardo wrote:

The problem with UPDATING is that it's only visible to people with a checked-out ports tree; people who only use binary packages will never see the messages.

pkg-updating(8) - display UPDATING entries of software packages

Sounds good to me

LGTM. Your call when to commit it, but consider whether you want to wait for the submitter to test the patch as you requested in the first PR.

The problem with UPDATING is that it's only visible to people with a checked-out ports tree; people who only use binary packages will never see the messages.

In D24324#915061, @andrew_tao173.riddles.org.uk wrote:

so... two years after everyone seems to have accepted it, maybe someone would commit it?

In D40119#914019, @arrowd wrote:

Ideally, we'd want to use %%LOCALBASE%% substitution there, but meh. I think this is fine as it is.