Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:10:38 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Kal Torak <kaltorak@iname.com> Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? Message-ID: <3A82547E.18AD4D26@cisco.com> References: <3A8208E7.C6EE4C24@quake.com.au> <20010208061814.5E6C5E6A17@netcom1.netcom.com> <200102080638.f186c9s39260@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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[redirected to ports] (Hi Bruce :-) In thinking about this further, it seems to me there is also some missing metadata that one would need to automate port upgrades reliably. There doesn't seem to be anything that relates previous versions of a port to an updated one. At least not in a rigorous manner that could be trusted by naive scripts... Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@cisco.com "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > > Trying to impart some UI: > > Akinori MUSHA has an experimental tool to do ports upgrading at: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~knu/misc/portupgrade.tar.gz > > Also, see pkg_upgrade in -CURRENT. > > I haven't played with either of these (yet). > > Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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