Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:10:19 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting Message-ID: <20050114221019.GA80102@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050114220835.GC74151@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050113062739.GA28658@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501131148520.25402-100000@pancho> <20050113180504.GA26064@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050114130404.250d6e26@apircalabu.dsd.ro> <20050114112918.GF69532@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050114211206.GF1175@k7.mavetju> <20050114215559.GA71927@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050114220344.GH1175@k7.mavetju> <20050114220835.GC74151@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:08:37PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:03:44AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:55:59PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > This keeps getting suggested under various names, but you need to > > > solve the compatibility problem. > >=20 > > Isn't that resolved by modifying ports/sysutils/pkg_install and > > noting it in ports/UPDATING? >=20 > That would be a big cop-out - it's hardly friendly to make every port > user update to -stable or take manual steps to avoid a broken package > system. There needs to be a better solution than that. The moral of the story being: "Every time you add manual upgrade steps to /usr/ports/UPDATING, it means the ports collection has failed to do its job". Kris --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB6ENLWry0BWjoQKURAk4XAJ9uktiLcmC7Kf78XTAVJeksoK12mgCfdbn4 NRLMLbmnjFpBZsWoM56d3yg= =Crr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/--
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