Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:14:14 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?) Message-ID: <17868.40406.608011.589753@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20070209111314.GA84731@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20070209111314.GA84731@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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In <20070209111314.GA84731@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> typed: > Funny that i have just announced a program, that i have called pkgupgrade > (by analogy with portupgrade, i was not aware of his other work), and whose > aim is precisely to do the things you want - i don't pretend it succeeds > perfectly, there may be bugs in it, but its aim is indeed to be a substitute to > portupgrade, with some differences. Cool. > On the downside, for some people it is written in python. Personally, I think that's cool, but it does means it won't go into the base system. Portupgrade would probably be in the base system if it were written in a language in the base system. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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