Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:07:35 -0700 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: upgrading packages Message-ID: <20010520180735.C81453@FreeBSD.org>
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Currently, upgrading packages is more painful than it should be. However,
it would not take much work to make things significantly more friendly -
1. pkg_add - when a package is installed, it should check for an older
version of itself, and if the new version provides everything
from the old one, update the associated +REQUIRED_BY files
2. pkg_delete - when a package is deleted, it should check for a newer
version of itself, and files that overlap between both
versions should not be deleted
Careful users can avoid the problems that these two changes fix, but
there's really no reason to not make life simple for everyone.
Comments? Takers? I'm a bit busy due to the finals that I've got looming on
the horizon, but I'll eventually get to it if no one else does.
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