From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 4 07:24:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA78106564A for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 07:24:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65ED98FC1F for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 07:24:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1M0sXK-000DKM-O7; Mon, 04 May 2009 11:24:26 +0400 To: Dominic Fandrey References: <49FACED3.2070009@bsdforen.de> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:24:28 +0400 In-Reply-To: <49FACED3.2070009@bsdforen.de> (Dominic Fandrey's message of "Fri\, 01 May 2009 12\:28\:35 +0200") Message-ID: <89135507@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binary package maintenance tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 07:24:29 -0000 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