Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:45:50 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231843420.20633-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199911240157.UAA45302@rwwa.com>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Robert Withrow wrote: > save me the effort of searching around for updates. (And it would > be especially cool if it would come with a utility that would scan > through my installed packages and notify me of the updated ones, > allowing me to install them if I wish.) I would prefer to You mean like pkg_version(1)? This doesn't currently give you the option of updating automatically, but that's not so much of a problem. > Also, if critical bug fixes (like CERT fixes and things of this severity) > could be distributed as packages/ports, this would reduce the pressure > for new releases somewhat. In theory this could probably be done, but it opens up the whole redhat can of worms about dependencies. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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