From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 11: 8:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E7037B694 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id UAA53931; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:08:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05084; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:08:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:08:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland To: Alexander Leidinger Cc: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org, schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Check for ports updates In-Reply-To: <200006281550.RAA00879@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 28 Jun, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > >> Any reason not to put this into bsd.port.mk? > >> > >> make update > > > > It will break the system at least 20% of the time. Change 20% to 100% > > for gnome, kde, xpm, png, tiff, jpeg, and so forth. > > I've successfully updated png/tiff/jpeg and some gnome packages > (core/libs, but not from 1.0.x to 1.2.x) this way. 100% is to much, but > even 10% is to much for "make update". > Can the portmaintainer add a flag: NO_UPDATE="major jump in version - keep old version too" Or UPDATE_OK="1.0.3" meaning it's ok to upgrade if the previous version is 1.0.3 or higher. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message