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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:10:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      batz <batsy@vapour.net>
To:        Mark Foster <mdf@enic.cc>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Managing port security upgrades (was:Re: PHP 4.1.2)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203131506270.5001-100000@vapour.net>
In-Reply-To: <1016047905.6825.34.camel@smokey.lan.enic.cc>

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On 13 Mar 2002, Mark Foster wrote:

:Sounds alot like 
:pkg_version -c -v | sh
:
:(assuming an updated ports tree)

Yeah, it does. So much for streamlining. Somebody
close the patent office, everything has been invented. 

Thanks:) 




:
:On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:07, batz wrote:
:> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Adam Wight wrote:
:> 
:> :What about a new make target, "upgrade," that only sync'ed the ports
:> :subtree for the port being built and its dependencies?
:> 
:> Hrm, so it would be implemented in the makefiles of the entire ports
:> collection? A top level makefile or one in each port? 
:> 
:> I was thinking about this a bit more, and it occured to me that 
:> using /var/db/pkg as a reference point, and either sup'ing a new
:> port, which would then get a sort of 'reverse dependancies' list, 
:> from /var/db/pkg/portname/+REQUIRED_BY, and selectively upgrading 
:> anything in there which had the original port as a dependancy. 
:> 
:> That sounds like it might run into problems with recursion, thoughts? 
:> 
:> 
:> 
:> --
:> batz
:> 
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