Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:24:00 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new tool: portupgrade Message-ID: <3A8273C0.68E16021@FreeBSD.org> References: <86k874g4c5.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20010207163439.C70586@dragon.nuxi.com> <868znhk0uz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
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Akinori MUSHA wrote: > At Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:34:39 -0800, > David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:19:54AM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > > > I wrote a handy tool to upgrade already installed packages with the > > > latest ports, called <portupgrade>. It's still far from finished > > > (error handling, recursive upgrades, etc.), but it has achieved my > > > primary goal. > > > > How does this compare with pkg_update? > > Portupgrade upgrades ports. And as it does in somewhat an "illegal" > way to do the job (i.e. it does something out of the ports/packages > framework), I have completely no intention of putting it into the > system. The fact that it's written in Ruby is also a good reason not > to do that. :> Well, unless you remove cra^H^H^Hperl from the base and put ruby instead ;). -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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