Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:25:12 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: David Bushong <david@bushong.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, Calvin NG <calvinng@brel.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org>, Jeff Kletsky <Jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FWIW: pkg_alert development (was: Re: pkg/port dependency tool (enclosed)) Message-ID: <614020000.988183512@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010424231857.M12643@bushong.net>
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--On Tuesday, April 24, 2001 23:18:57 -0700 David Bushong <david@bushong.net> wrote: > 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 I don't think it was pkg_update you saw a README for, I committed this as completed code, there wasn't a README around beforehand. > 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 concur, I ran into a lot of issues when trying to write it and the more I thought about new features the more it highlighted how many problems there are with the ports "database". > 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. I must have missed that presentation, is it online somewhere? I've grabbed a copy of your pkg_update, I'll take a look at it tonight and see if we can merge some of the ideas. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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