From owner-freebsd-pkg@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 15:14:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB4472CA for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from st11p01mm-asmtp002.mac.com (st11p01mm-asmtp002.mac.com [17.172.204.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (112/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.me.com", Issuer "VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL SGC CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B178D1B8 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.42] (unknown [37.82.113.179]) by st11p01mm-asmtp002.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.10(7.0.4.27.9) 64bit (built Jun 6 2014)) with ESMTPSA id <0NEO00I1NCZHVA00@st11p01mm-asmtp002.mac.com> for freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:14:34 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.12.52,1.0.28,0.0.0000 definitions=2014-11-07_06:2014-11-07,2014-11-07,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1408290000 definitions=main-1411070122 From: =?utf-8?Q?Sebastian_J=C3=A4schke?= Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Subject: merging pkg databases Message-id: Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:14:00 +0100 To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.0 \(1990.1\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1990.1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Binary package management and package tools discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:14:36 -0000 Hi! For some reason we need to merge pkg(ng) databases together, so that = only the newer packages is in the resulting database, if both merged = databases have packages of the same type. And if two packages in the = databases have even the same version, always the same database is = overwritten. The reason is that we have a ro tree which is handled = differently than the rw pathes including /usr/local. It seems to be not possible with the common tools for pkg, so our = company is willing to pay for a solution on this. How should be ask whom for this? Is one of the followers of this fine = list a freelancer, willing and able to do this job? Should we ask the = foundation itself? We are quite new on a question like this, so please advise! Thanks a lot!=