Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:22:09 +0100 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?) Message-ID: <20070209182209.GA24307@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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youshi10 wrote : > > 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. > > Would perl be close enough to count, or would it have to be C/C++? I think that such a tool, once debugged, and if people find it convenient, should be written in C++. The reason is that such a tool naturally uses a lot of dictionaries and similar data structures which are in the STL. So i think the translation from python to C++ would not be too terrible. I hope to do it later on if it is valuable. For the moment being i have fixed some little problems i had with save_pkg.py and i have finally found a bug which was such that far too many ports were compiled. The bug was in function to_have() which was completely incorrect. With this correction, this is the sort of result i get on my machine: niobe% ./pkgupgrade There are now 621 packages installed. Here i have shunted first phase for debugging. Second phase, downloads and backups. Total time spent in backups: 00 minutes 22 seconds. Total time spent in downloads: 08 minutes 17 seconds. Writing upgrade shell script. Will remove 391 old packages. Will install 465 new binary packages. Will compile 11 ports. All tasks completed. ****************************************************************** Total time: 09 minutes 12 seconds. So only 11 ports have to be compiled! Of course it retreived a lot more packages, which explains the longer download time. I have replaced the corrected save_pkg.py on my website, and will replace pkgupgrade tomorrow after a further check. -- Michel TALON
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