From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 0:15:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0BB37B423 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C1A1D12A; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:15:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:15:51 +0100 From: Paul Richards To: Calvin NG , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FWIW: pkg_alert development (was: Re: pkg/port dependency tool (enclosed)) Message-ID: <550770000.988182951@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010425124412.E8030@brel.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Linux/x86 Demo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:44:12 +0800 Calvin NG wrote: > Greetings, > > okay, does it fetch+build+install the packages in the ports?? or > download+install the binary packages?? > > I much prefer to do a local build, than to use something that works > like rpm. It only works with binary packages at the moment but I also prefer to do my own builds so I tend to build a local package and then use that to do the upgrade. I'd be more than happy for more people to work on this so if you want to help get in touch. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message