From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 7 3:38:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE5137B405 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:38:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:38:20 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16NY4E-0002x2-00; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 11:35:50 +0000 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:35:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Andrew J Caines Cc: stable Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility In-Reply-To: <20020106165913.J71102@hal9000.halplant.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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