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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:01:06 +0100
From:      Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Mike Jakubik <mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com>
Subject:   Re: pkgng: how to upgrade a single port?
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Am 04.11.2013 um 23:15 schrieb Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>:

> Hi,
>=20
> Yes, all the things you've said are correct.
>=20
> But once that's all said and done, you're still going to end up
> occasionally (or not so occasionally) hitting issues where upgrading a
> package without upgrading the dependencies ends up _breaking_ things.
>=20
> A lot of what makes yum/apt/etc work is because they have a stable
> package set and this hides all of the crap surrounding dependency
> changing hell. Things are much more exciting if you run debian-testing
> though (ie, you get exactly what you described with openjdk /
> apache-solr.)
>=20



Weren=92t there plans to run a =84stable=93 ports-tree at some point?

Does anybody know how large a ports-tree is without GUI-apps?

Our internal repo is now just shy of 1000 packages (most php53-modules, =
100+ PERL-modules, some python, ruby, apache, nginx, some java).

It=92s a huge effort to stabilize that tree between releases - I can=92t =
imagine anybody doing it for the full ports-tree without a couple of =
FTEs.





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