From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 14:14:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0CF16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:14:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-3-1-cust208.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.31.78.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BA843D5A for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:14:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from ceri by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1EoiG0-00018F-M1; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:14:24 +0000 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:14:24 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Allen Message-ID: <20051220141424.GB68989@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Allen , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org> <1134809700l.24187l.0l@HP> <20051217085517.GA1132@unixpages.org> <200512170537.20791.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512170537.20791.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My wish list for 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:14:27 -0000 --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:37:20AM -0500, Allen wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:55, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:55:00AM +0000, Allen wrote: > > > I know about the port tool, but what I'd love to have is a tool you > > > could run from the CLI or the GUI that would check for updates, and > > > then ask which ones to install, similar to Swaret on Slackware. This > > > way people can do the usual updates if they want, and people like me > > > can show people BSD and how great it is. > > > > You probably haven't seen ports/security/freebsd-update yet. >=20 > Actually, I've seen that and it does come close... But it didn't seem to = like=20 > updating the Kernel or anything similar to the base system in the time I= =20 > spent with it. Look harder; those are the *only* things it will update. This is not portupgrade. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDqBHAocfcwTS3JF8RAm7nAKCi83DBSFjp8yxjehKnTmi861osjACgw565 YWIwQ3mLsIG6PRPaCGQYHNs= =sywG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O--