Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:02:01 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Christian Carstensen <cc@devcon.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating packages automatically... Message-ID: <19990925180201.C76486@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909260005560.1879-100000@pauling.research.devcon.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909260005560.1879-100000@pauling.research.devcon.net>
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On Sun, Sep 26, 1999, Christian Carstensen wrote: > > hi *, > > i'm thinking about writing a perl script that updates installed packages > automatically, if there's a newer version in the ports directory. > unfortunately, the package name, as in /var/db/pkg, in some cases does not > correspond to the ports directory name at all. > for example, the port in 'archivers/gshar+gunshar' contains the package > 'sharutils-4.2'. would it be a good idea to store the port's path > information somewhere, e.g. in a file 'pkg/+PORTPATH'? 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! -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |State-of-the-practice: What we can do with the money you have. `-------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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