From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 11:50:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B0437B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B6543E4A for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g69IoHoi027649; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g69IoAmZ027648; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:50:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" , naddy@mips.inka.de Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <20020708.094652.21114246.imp@village.org> <20020709073309.GB96335@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709082753.GA60250@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709082753.GA60250@mithrandr.moria.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:27:53AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > portupgrade does his very thing. > > > > Only from /usr/ports, building each port -- it will not use precompiled > > packages. :-( > > Yeah it will - using -P, and only using packages using -PP. (Not saying > it's perfect, or that it'll work in the given example, especially with > regards to upgrading libraries without upgrading all packages that > depend on it that may not be in the "current set of binary packages.) I should have said more -- it requires the packages to be local. This means if I want to update something I practically have to download all ?5? GB of packages from ftp.freebsd.org so that what ever package portupgrade might want will be available to it. Portupgrade really needs to grow the functionality of `pkg_add -r'. Someone demoed the Debian package system to me at USENIX and it appears it does have this functionality. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message