Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:24:28 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binary package maintenance tool Message-ID: <89135507@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <49FACED3.2070009@bsdforen.de> (Dominic Fandrey's message of "Fri\, 01 May 2009 12\:28\:35 %2B0200") References: <49FACED3.2070009@bsdforen.de>
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On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:28:35 +0200 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > 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. Great! T've done some tests at my home machine and I really like this tool. I was deaming for it for a long time. And it works much faster than "portupgrade -PP". > 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. +1 Thanks! > 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. This would be very usefull too. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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