From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 6:45:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from euphoria.confusion.net (dementia.confusion.net [205.166.119.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C032C37B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@euphoria.confusion.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by euphoria.confusion.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f6ADjEZ26365; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:45:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland To: Rasputin Cc: Jamie Bowden , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral In-Reply-To: <20010710125613.A51035@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rasputin wrote: > I may be low on caffeine, but I don't see how breaking up the base system > into packages makes it any easier to upgrade than using cvsup? I think the discussion is Re: binary upgrades, like putting in the CD and hitting that upgrade option, which right now doesn't quite get you there afaik. > > Id have thought it would require more work to upgrade under some system > similar to the ports tree (at least that's my experience) > > But like I said, I've probably misread this post. > > I thought the OP was referring to X in particular, and since that's > upgraded via ports anyway, it does seem a good candidate to be > installed by pkg_add (it's quite confusing for newbies to > "pkg_info | grep XFree " and have it return nothing, especially when > you're sat in Enlightenment...) L: http://www.isp.northwestern.edu/~laurence To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message