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On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
> wrote:
>> Marin Atanasov wrote:
>>
>>> So what do you think - is it worth improving upon it or it's a waste
>>> of time?
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> INDEX is made available via to pkg_install within sysinstall and exists
> on mirrors in the following location:
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ARCH}/packages-${VERSION}/
INDEX

Would be nice if there was also INDEX.bz2.

Also to be able to write an effective pkg upgrade tool one would need 
something like /usr/ports/MOVED.