From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 16:14:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB0237B417; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from tulip ([203.151.134.104]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA03771; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:13:17 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011120071415.007d5b80@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:14:15 +0700 To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt Subject: Re: cvsup of ports, then what? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200111161710.fAGHAqj53942@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> References: <15348.63980.371923.848952@guru.mired.org> <15348.63980.371923.848952@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:10 AM 11/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote: >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