Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:35:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> Cc: stable <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201071134030.25474-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020106165913.J71102@hal9000.halplant.com>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Andrew J Caines wrote: > While portupgrade is a fantastic tool, don't forget it's _port_upgrade and > only applies to ports, so isn't really much use as a base tool, nevermind > issues about its dependencies. It's great; however (and this isn't a portupgrade problem, it's an -occasional- port/package problem) the utility of the binary upgrade is somewhat marred by the occasional prebuilt package that insists on installing a config file (rather than a *.conf.sample). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Work #90: As many pseudo-intellectual sycophants as necessary to make one inarticulate scotsman think he's a genius in command of The Profound. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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