Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:09:26 -0800 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system Message-ID: <20080320190926.GA29128@flint.openpave.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0803200047360.54264@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <20080320001048.GA39125@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0803200047360.54264@ync.qbhto.arg>
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Hi, On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:05:27AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Now all that said, I'd love to see us move to a much more robust package > management system, or even just a better interface to the one we have. The > problem is that I don't have the time to do that as a volunteer project, > and I don't think anyone else does either. :) I did a lot of this work, when I did have the time: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpkg/ Supports upgrading (doesn't move the files to compat, but that would be a five line change), backups, db files, versioned depends, pkg_which. Just about all of the ideas on that page, but not command line compatible with portupgrade. I haven't played with it in years. It would need all of the pkg_install features and fixes from about 2004 (or maybe earlier) merged in (or reimplemented). Regards, -Jeremy -- FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... http://www.freebsd.org/
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