From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 16:12:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pauling.research.devcon.net (pauling.research.devcon.net [212.15.193.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7C4157A1 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cc@devcon.net) Received: from localhost (cc@localhost) by pauling.research.devcon.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA02184; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:11:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cc@devcon.net) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:11:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Carstensen X-Sender: cc@pauling.research.devcon.net To: Chris Costello Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating packages automatically... In-Reply-To: <19990925180201.C76486@holly.calldei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > 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! that's right. i thought about having some kind of exclude list for ports that shall never be upgraded automatically. anyway, the script will just generate a shell script output. it should not replace packages without manual intervention. -- christian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message