From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 11:53: 5 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 8926737B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D06943E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:53:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id AF6EE9B34; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:53:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:53:02 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020709185302.GL56853@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-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> <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i 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 11:50:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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'. Umm.. it does support it. It even does a better job than pkg_add on this front, in that it's configurable. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message