Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:09:01 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system Message-ID: <1206054541.83260.50.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <47E2EA72.8000309@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0803191454030.48140@ync.qbhto.arg> <47E2EA72.8000309@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway p=ED=B9e v =E8t 20. 03. 2008 v 23:51 +0100:
> > A user pointed out to me that on the project ideas page the following=20
> > entry remains:
> >=20
> > Write a new utility for the pkg_install suite, possibly named=20
> > pkg_upgrade(1), implementing a subset of existing portupgrade=20
> > functionality. The required functionality is:
>=20
> FWIW, I have no idea why this is on the project list. I suspect it was=20
> added by someone without any consensus that it's a good idea.
That was me, a year ago.
> We have several upgrade tools in ports, and that is where they belong.=20
> Any effort should be spent on improving existing tools, unless you can=20
> make a really good case why they are fundamentally flawed and need to be=20
> rewritten from scratch, discarding all of the previous work on them.
Since then portmaster matured, so we might think about removing the item
from Ideas list.
I can't agree with you that the upgrading utilities have to stay in
ports. I'd very much like to see one of them be present in the base.
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
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