From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 1 21: 9:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8CE37B409; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f8248nv80574; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:08:48 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Paul Richards , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/update pkg_update.pl Message-ID: <20010901210848.A80420@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200012300014.eBU0E1238805@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010902012740.A11122@tao.org.uk> <20010901173230.A17955@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010901173230.A17955@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:32:30PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:32:30PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Is there any remaining need for this pkg_update implementation now > that knu's portupgrade does such a complete job? Yes. Packages are too much a part of FreeBSD that a [minimal] complete set of pkg_* utils must be in the base system. If `portupgrade' was written in something supported by the base system, then it could replace `pkg_update'. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message