From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 8 20:05:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D99916A41F; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:05:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6C243D45; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:05:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.23]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKX00GE96AU0Z50@l-daemon>; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:01:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKX00LV76AUVYB0@pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca>; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:01:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKX0005J6AU0O@l-daemon>; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:01:42 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:01:41 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <42F71D75.4060008@freebsd.org> To: Nik Clayton Message-id: <42F7BA25.6060400@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F51979.2020509@FreeBSD.org> <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> <42F71D75.4060008@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:05:20 -0000 Nik Clayton wrote: > It may be too late in the day, but I'd far prefer this to be pulled in > with a more descriptive name: > > portssync > portsupdate > portsfresh or portsfreshen > > perhaps? I think it's too late to change the name; but as the various port.* tools migrate into the base system (as I hope they well), I get the feeling that someday it might be a good idea to have a port(8) utility which takes a command ("install", "upgrade", "update-tree", etc) and runs the right utility. This would reduce naming confusion, as well as helping new users to find all the tools they need. Of course, this depends upon more of these utilities making their way into the base system. Colin Percival