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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:33:09 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc: naddy@mips.inka.de, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 09:46:52AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <agacqn$1tv4$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
>             naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
> : Compared to Debian and RPM the ability to do comprehensive updates
> : from packages is missing.  Install 500 ports.  Wait a year for
> : revisions, library versions, and even dependencies to change all
> : over.  Now let's upgrade all installed ports from a current set of
> : binary packages.  That sort of thing.
> 
> portupgrade does his very thing.

Only from /usr/ports, building each port -- it will not use precompiled
packages.  :-(

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