Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:50:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, naddy@mips.inka.de Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020709082753.GA60250@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <agacqn$1tv4$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20020708.094652.21114246.imp@village.org> <20020709073309.GB96335@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709082753.GA60250@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:27:53AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > portupgrade does his very thing. > > > > Only from /usr/ports, building each port -- it will not use precompiled > > packages. :-( > > Yeah it will - using -P, and only using packages using -PP. (Not saying > it's perfect, or that it'll work in the given example, especially with > regards to upgrading libraries without upgrading all packages that > depend on it that may not be in the "current set of binary packages.) I should have said more -- it requires the packages to be local. This means if I want to update something I practically have to download all ?5? GB of packages from ftp.freebsd.org so that what ever package portupgrade might want will be available to it. Portupgrade really needs to grow the functionality of `pkg_add -r'. Someone demoed the Debian package system to me at USENIX and it appears it does have this functionality. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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