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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:02:01 -0500
From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Subject: Re: updating packages automatically...
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On Sun, Sep 26, 1999, Christian Carstensen wrote:
> 
> hi *,
> 
> i'm thinking about writing a perl script that updates installed packages
> automatically, if there's a newer version in the ports directory.
> unfortunately, the package name, as in /var/db/pkg, in some cases does not
> correspond to the ports directory name at all.
> for example, the port in 'archivers/gshar+gunshar' contains the package
> 'sharutils-4.2'. would it be a good idea to store the port's path
> information somewhere, e.g. in a file 'pkg/+PORTPATH'?

   Aah!  No!  I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane
for about two weeks.

   Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially
for those using apache from ports!

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|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|State-of-the-practice: What we can do with the money you have.
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