From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 11 12:37:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8807216A400; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from queue01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (queue01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAFD13C441; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:37:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20070211122316.UBZV2951.mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:23:16 +0000 Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.101.128.185]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20070211122316.JKFY17393.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:23:16 +0000 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org ([192.168.1.6]:61401) by llama.fishballoon.org with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HGDje-000P29-E0; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:23:14 +0000 Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l1BCNE4R004848; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:23:14 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:23:14 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Michel Talon Message-ID: <20070211122314.GA1589@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20070210154028.GA60921@lpthe.jussieu.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070210154028.GA60921@lpthe.jussieu.fr> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:37:34 -0000 On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:40:28PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > Hello, > > this is to report a revised version of my program, intended to upgrade > a machine using mainly precompiled packages. All problems that i have > seen or have been reported to me have been fixed. So i think it is > reasonably suitable for use, and i have sticked a 1.0 label. > I have also fixed all problems i have encountered with save_pkg.py, but > Cyrille Szymanski will perform a better cleanup, so i have appended a > 0.5 tag. So fresh copies can be downloaded from: > http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkgupgrade-1.0 > http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/save_pkg.py-0.5 Hi Michel. Good work, this script is pretty cool! One thing that might be nice to add is an option to download new packages from the packages-X-stable directory, if a newer version is found there. I think you only ever look in packages-X.Y-release at the moment, and those never change after the release as far as I know. Best regards, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon