Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:14:15 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup of ports, then what? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20011120071415.007d5b80@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200111161710.fAGHAqj53942@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> References: <15348.63980.371923.848952@guru.mired.org> <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEKIDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za> <15348.63980.371923.848952@guru.mired.org>
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At 09:10 AM 11/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote: <snip> >I personally recommend using portupgrade...it does a much better job of >handling upgrades than pkg_version could ever pretend to do. pkg_version >sucks rocks at solving the port upgrade problem because it was never >designed to handle it. > >Bruce. > >PS. Mike probably knows this, but for anyone who wasn't aware, I'm the >original author of pkg_version, so I'm entitled to make disparaging >remarks about it. I'm glad you said that because I'd like to thank you for a good tool. It sounds as if you now wish you'd made it better than you did, but let me tell you I've found it useful, and I can't think of much higher praise than that. I've found it to be a good, solid, workmanlike program which solves one of my problems well. I've had a couple of cases where dependencies weren't properly updated in my source tree and the commands from 'pkg_version -c' generated an error, but that wasn't the fault of pkg_version. But thanks too for giving a recommendation for what you consider a superior tool. Now I'll try it, since you should know whether it's better or not. -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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