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Date:      Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:19:12 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Package upgrade check program
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810221516120.11811-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <001b01bdfd7a$021fd540$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au>

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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, John Saunders wrote:

> With everybody hot into upgrading to 3.0, I thought I would
> throw this script in that I have been working on the last
> couple of days (bit at a time). This script suggests upgrades
> to installed packages. I'm continuing to work on a version
> that will do the upgrade for you (after prompting of course).

Bruce Mah posted a similar script to one of the mailing lists a few months
ago- search the mailing list archives for pkg_version. IMO it would be good to
get something like this into the base system, or perhaps as a port (a la
mergemaster). Perhaps you could get together and combine your good ideas and
submit something to the ports team.

Kris


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