Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:13:34 +0000 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [self base packages] pkg: packages for wrong OS version: FreeBSD:12:amd64 Message-ID: <9C046B68-0F45-432C-96A9-4A4B2AEAED24@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20180110185336.nlwkwhxu574kybvi@ivaldir.net> References: <da61ca31-3e85-99b6-5894-03796779c7ca@passap.ru> <20180110185336.nlwkwhxu574kybvi@ivaldir.net>
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On 10 Jan 2018, at 18:53, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > I need to figure out a mechanism to make this simpler to handle to = upgrade of > base system while keeping this safety belt for users. >=20 > Any idea is welcome I believe the apt approach to this is to have a different verb = (distupgrade vs upgrade) to perform complete version upgrades. Ideally, = the proper fix would probably be to depend on a base package version, = rather than OSVERSION, and if the base packages are not being used to = synthesise a phantom set of base package metadata based on OSVERSION. David
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