From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 0:25:16 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 E4DCE37B423; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:25:12 -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 012FF1D12A; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:25:12 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:25:12 +0100 From: Paul Richards To: David Bushong , 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: <614020000.988183512@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010424231857.M12643@bushong.net> 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 Tuesday, April 24, 2001 23:18:57 -0700 David Bushong 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