From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 05:24:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4624416A420 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:24:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from orac000@internet-mail.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CBC43D5D for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:19:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from orac000@internet-mail.org) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B1FD3B66B for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:19:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:19:33 -0500 Received: by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 811DF258; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:19:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1142054372.14978.256358031@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: AneCLj89n9K5WG8qaDYBLwtRlWxAzvDtUwM7qb9nTIJz 1142054372 From: "Aluminium Oxide" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 5022 (F2.72; T1.15; A1.62; B3.04; Q3.03) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:49:32 +1030 Subject: portsupgrade cvsup refuse file aware? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:24:23 -0000 Currently, proper use of portsupgrade relies on currency of pkgdb. pkgdb does not work without a complete ports tree. A complete ports tree is often much larger than a locale-specific installation requires, or is maintained, confined by the use of cvsup refuse files. This is a bit of a catch 22. How much better would it be, if pkgdb had a flag to permit the parsing of the refuse file, and honouring the ports tree resulting from cvsup as produced by it? Can we do this? What say ye all? (b.t.w., I'm not on the list so kindly Cc me on any correspondance with this thread please.) Damien Miller ===================== Sub POSIX lumen orac000@internet-mail.org +61 422 921 498 ===================== -- Aluminium Oxide orac000@internet-mail.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are