From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 20:58:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D128416A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:58:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F45943D39 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:58:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2535F1FF2 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix, from userid 80) id 0EA0DF1FDE; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 142.24.184.159 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fcash); by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca with HTTP; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64390.142.24.184.159.1098910704.squirrel@142.24.184.159> In-Reply-To: References: <20041027173212.GA59754@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041027190416.GA70873@ei.bzerk.org> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:58:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" To: current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: Portupgrade -af question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fcash@ocis.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:58:35 -0000 >>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:26:49AM -0700, Zoltan Frombach wrote: >> Yes. Wouldn't it be a nice feature for "portupgrade -P" to install >> the port instead of the package if any non-defaults were defined in >> pkgtools.conf? >> (I guess now's the time for me to learn some ruby) > If you really want to add this to portupgrade, it should be optional, > though. Because someone might have a broken compiler or something and > just wants to install a binary package quickly. In that case it > should be possible to force a binary package installation regardless > of what's inside the pkgtools.conf file. Don't you agree? This is already in portupgrade. :) "portupgrade -PP" will force it to install a package only. If there is no package availble, then nothing gets installed. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash@sd73.bc.ca helpdesk@sd73.bc.ca