Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:29:52 +0200 From: Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kurt Abahar <xverify@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized Message-ID: <20070727052952.GA25729@graf.pompo.net> In-Reply-To: <46A94E00.8090806@FreeBSD.org> References: <741883.89656.qm@web53507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <46A94E00.8090806@FreeBSD.org>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Ven 27 jul 07 =E0 3:44:32 +0200, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> =E9crivait=A0: > Kurt Abahar wrote: > > I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of > > time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use > > packages as much as possible. After updating the ports > > tree using portsnap, portupgrade looks for packages > > that don't exist yet. Basically, my goal is to avoid > > this and have the ports tree update to a state for > > which packages have already been built. >=20 > Ok, that's what I was afraid you were asking for. No such facility > exists, and I don't imagine anyone creating one any time soon because > it would be VERY hard to accomplish for a large number of reasons. Michel Talon's pkgupgrade attempt to solve this problem: see <http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/freebsdports.html#htoc19>. Regards, --=20 Th. Thomas. --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGqYLQc95pjMcUBaIRAqhBAJ96H1pLyE1o7lyJZP/zziboYv9H4wCglZ8R et26BkdURprB0waYZspZrew= =cQD1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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