Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 12:28:35 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: binary package maintenance tool Message-ID: <49FACED3.2070009@bsdforen.de>
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The port sysutils/bsdadminscripts has just been updated to version 6.0, which features pkg_upgrade, a binary only package maintenance tool. It makes no use of the ports tree, so unlike other build oriented tools, you do not need a copy of the ports tree to keep your packages up to date. It only requires an INDEX file from pointyhead or your personal Tinderbox. Thanks go to Markus Schöpke and his employer http://www.webstyle.ch (FreeBSD hosting) for extensive feedback, testing and providing me with hardware to perform my own tests. Also featuring this release is UMA, a simple package/ports meta data maintenance and locking script, to provide consistency and locking for the coexistence of several package maintenance tools. The port ports-mgmt/kports-qt4 will make use of UMA in future versions. pkg_upgrade will, among other things, support parallel background downloading from several mirrors with the next version. This has already been implemented, but has not yet received sufficient testing to make it into this release. Advertisement out.
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