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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:15:31 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Zoltan Frombach <tssajo@hotmail.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade -af question
Message-ID:  <20041027211531.GC59489@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV9tPGtPrPrvC000146aa@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY2-DAV3ExvWvqzAoa0000c9e7@hotmail.com> <20041027173212.GA59754@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041027190416.GA70873@ei.bzerk.org> <BAY2-DAV9tPGtPrPrvC000146aa@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:34:51PM -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?
> 
> 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? 

'portupgrade -PP' can still be used for that.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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