Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:00:02 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Aluminium Oxide <orac000@internet-mail.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsupgrade cvsup refuse file aware? Message-ID: <20060311060002.GA40638@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1142054372.14978.256358031@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1142054372.14978.256358031@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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--MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:49:32PM +1030, Aluminium Oxide wrote: > Currently, proper use of portsupgrade relies on currency of pkgdb. pkgdb > does not work without a complete ports tree. A complete ports tree is > often much larger than a locale-specific installation requires, or is > maintained, confined by the use of cvsup refuse files. This is a bit of > a catch 22. >=20 > How much better would it be, if pkgdb had a flag to permit the parsing > of the refuse file, and honouring the ports tree resulting from cvsup as > produced by it? >=20 > Can we do this? Not really, this has been discussed many times. Kris --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEEmdhWry0BWjoQKURAii+AKDoePknb6mA4kcaJ//1h3020eFh5ACg9ryV 7GR8PKW4ltFWatnHQF/g4MA= =nsms -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--
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