Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:59:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for comments - pkg_trans Message-ID: <g6vfcm$j2u$2@ger.gmane.org> References: <g6res0$giq$1@ger.gmane.org> <g6tcss$hcg$1@ger.gmane.org> <g6vacs$7b4$1@ger.gmane.org> <g6vetm$j2u$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:51:02 +0000, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:33:43 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> Marcin Wisnicki wrote: >>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:25:27 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> >>> It will install gnome2 along with it's dependencies but in some way >>> mark gnome2 package as installed by user, say, by creating >>> /var/db/pkg/ gnome2-2.22/+USER_INSTALLED or even easier, by maintaing >>> some special unremovable dummy package that would depend on all >>> packages installed explicitly. >> >> This has the same problems as my scheme > > But is simpler both conceptually and in implementation > >> and I'm not sure the benefits >> are the same. With pkg_trans, we know explicitly which packages were >> pulled in when, and the order in which they were pulled. > > Well I'm not sure why any user would care about order and it can be Though it would be usefull to have a full log of package operations in machine and human readable format for review/auditing and similar purposes. > inferred from mtime of package metadata or new "+comment DATE" (see > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/) anyway.
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