Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:38:44 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Sean Jensen-Grey <seanj@speakeasy.org>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Jay Krell <jay.krell@cornell.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsuping and rebuilding, esp. ports Message-ID: <3869E4B4.D85A76AA@inpharmatica.co.uk> References: <19991228214752.A46546@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.05.9912281413290.9635-100000@grace.speakeasy.org> <19991228224542.A47192@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst wrote:
> > pkg_version -c is a Good Thing. Thanks for bring it to my attention.
>
> Well, you can see above, it could be a lot better. I have bash-2.03
> installed, and that script would delete it, only to reinstall the same
> version! I think it should be modified to skip the update if one of the
> versions in the index is the same to what you have installed. I guess I
> should get coding rather than whinging though. :-) There's another case
> if there are multiple versions, when it isn't perfect, but it's still
> very helpful.
I had a go at pkg_version to try and add some functionality like this: see PR
misc/15304 for my hacks.
Cheers,
Matthew
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