From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 24 23:20:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firebat.bushong.net (c128625-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.176.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7E437B422; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbushong@firebat.bushong.net) Received: (from dbushong@localhost) by firebat.bushong.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3P6KDQ50002; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:20:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbushong) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:18:57 -0700 From: David Bushong To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Sean Chittenden , Calvin NG , Sean Chittenden , Jeff Kletsky , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FWIW: pkg_alert development (was: Re: pkg/port dependency tool (enclosed)) Message-ID: <20010424231857.M12643@bushong.net> References: <20010423231827.A19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424142340.E5216@brel.com> <20010424014833.B19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424210517.L12643@bushong.net> <20010424211314.A98683@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010424211314.A98683@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:13:14PM -0700 X-Floating-Sheep-Port: 0xbaa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:13:14PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:05:17PM -0700, David Bushong wrote: > > I noted this a bit earlier, but if someone's looking for a tool with this sort > > of functionality, I'm casually maintaining one called "pkg_upgrade": > > You people really should check around more before starting new projects :-( > > PKG_UPDATE(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual PKG_UPDATE(1) > > NAME > pkg_update - update an installed package > > ... > That does a tiny bit of what I'm looking for.. and existed only as a README file when I started writing this. I hestitate to put a whole lot more work into any system, though, as I'm convinced that the current ports/package system has critical shortcomings that making theoretically flawless (let alone pratically) upgrades impossible. (Lack of central database, versioning and segmentation based solely on filename, and so on..) I'm waiting for that tasty 3rd generation package system Jordan promised us all at BSDCon, and getting along fine with pkg_upgrade in the meantime. --David Bushong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message