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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



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