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... Message-ID: <1383245127.82272.YahooMailNeo@web163906.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Suppose pkg when installing libxul from a package (for example), put the following 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. Then one may know more readily, when it is time to update gxine, if the libxul package may be available. I suppose a record of the pkg 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?) This would solve some things locally. Its difficulty to implement is not something I would be able to ascertain without the input of others. So just putting the idea into the mix. Sorry for the web formatting if off. For example 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. J. Bouquet From owner-freebsd-pkg@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 31 19:20:16 2013 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-pkg@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Received: from mandree.no-ip.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217B868E for <freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org>; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:20:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandree@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost6.localdomain6 [IPv6:::1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7AF23CF4D for <freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org>; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:20:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5272AD6E.30109@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:20:14 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: pkg suggestions (was: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng) References: <5271BC11.1010303@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5271BC11.1010303@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Binary package management and package tools discussion <freebsd-pkg.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-pkg>, <mailto:freebsd-pkg-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pkg>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-pkg-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkg>, <mailto:freebsd-pkg-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:20:16 -0000 - Please Cc: me on replies, I am not subscribed to pkg@. - 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.help
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