From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 5 23:37:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2107D16A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:37:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smp500.sitetronics.com (sitetronics.com [82.192.77.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88AD43D1D for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:37:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=UebiMiau) by smp500.sitetronics.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz; Tue, 06 Jul 2004 01:37:12 +0200 Received: from client 213.46.199.67 for UebiMiau2.7 (webmail client); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 1:37:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 1:37:12 -0000 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: "Oliver Eikemeier" , "Michael Nottebrock" X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: UebiMiau 2.7.2 X-Original-IP: 213.46.199.67 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MSMail-Priority: Medium Importance: Medium Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Rob Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Devon H. O'Dell" List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 23:37:16 -0000 > > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > On Monday 05 July 2004 04:02, Rob wrote: > >> Colin Percival wrote: > >>> At 08:12 04/07/2004, Joel Dahl wrote: > >>>> 1) Is there a need for a rewrite of cvsup and portupgrade in C so > >>>> that > >>>> they can be included in the base system? > >>> > >>> Yes please. :-) > >> > >> I remember that portupgrade is intentionally not in the base system, to > >> allow easier updates for a running system. This way it can be more > >> often > >> updated than the official releases, to reflect changes in the ports > >> system. > > > > And that's a good thing. Perhaps somebody wants to investigate if some > > sort of > > packages-only, C based updater which does not need a local ports tree > > to work > > is feasible. That could very well have a place in the base-system and > > also > > further promote and ease the use of binary packages. > > Which doesn't mean it couldn't be part of the 'ports base'. I'm > investigating > whether a combination of pkg_install and bsd.port.mk couldn't make a > `make upgrade' feasible. Currently we just upgrade the pkg_install tools > on > older systems by installing them as a port, so no problems from this > side... > > -Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Please forgive the horrible web mail client formatting. I'd like to note that Maxime (mux@) is working on csup (and it's mostly finished from what I hear); a C implementation of cvsup. Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell