Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:01:23 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Users <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? Message-ID: <20050418200123.GA54548@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> In-Reply-To: <20050418190644.GU46106@eris.tenfour> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20050417202031.0490ad98@localhost> <4263280B.3010601@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> <002b01c5442c$d4a1caf0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418094749.057187f0@localhost> <007c01c5442f$c9a36ed0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418105722.05c08490@localhost> <011701c5443a$fbdfb060$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418112233.059694d0@localhost> <20050418190644.GU46106@eris.tenfour>
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Dick Davies wrote: >All the grief with 'x depends on y and z, z needs i' and all that rubbish go >away with portupgrade in my experience - I tend to hook openldap into everything, >and that gets upgraded fairly regularly. On netbsd it takes an afternoon to clean >up the mess - portupgrade was a big reason for me to give freebsd another go, just >because of how it simplifies package management... You know about "make update" in NetBSD's pkgsrc? pkg_add -u(u) should do the same for binary packages. mkb.
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