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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com>
To:        "freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Feature request...
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Suppose pkg when installing libxul from a package (for example), put the fo=
llowing in /usr/ports/multimedia/gxine (for example) "/usr/ports/multimedia=
/gxine/pkg_rdep_libxul.(MM-YY or Version or...)" making one .bak copy if it=
 exists. =A0Then one may know more readily, when it is time to update gxine=
, if the libxul package may be available. =0A=0AI suppose a record of the p=
kg installs for that particular machine would need to exist on it somewhere=
, so pkg did not install irrelevant files. (A local.sqlite clone? or a 2nd =
version relevant only to locally installled packages?)=A0=0A=0AThis would s=
olve some things locally. =A0Its difficulty to implement is not something I=
 would be able to ascertain without the input of others. =A0So just putting=
 the idea into the mix. =0A=0ASorry for the web formatting if off. =A0For e=
xample I cannot add text below my typed signature for some reason. That is =
also the reason this is not as a reply to other emails re pkg.=0A=0AJ. Bouq=
uet=A0=0A
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Am 31.10.2013 03:10, schrieb Bryan Drewery:

> To use binary packages:
> 
> 1. Ensure your pkg(8) is up-to-date. 'pkg -v' should say at least
>    1.1.4_8. If it does not, first upgrade from ports.
...

Perhaps we might want to add more SRV, or TXT, DNS records to state the
minimum required versions, and/or reasons for deprecating older versions.

Then we could have pkg 1.2 or newer check if it deems itself "new
enough" for binary stuff, so that we have a quick path for a
deprecation, just in case something goes seriously wrong.




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