Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 15:14:29 -0700 From: "Roger Marquis" <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ports-mgmt/pkg
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Zsolt Ero wrote: >I don't know how those tools internally check the state of packages, >but anyone who self manages a server usually writes a long line of >"pkg install -y pkg1 pkg2 pkg3" in a script. I would think that 99% of >server deployment scripts are structured like this. This is a major headache for us as well. What benefit is there to '-y' failing if a package or dependency is already installed and at the current version? Do we want to specify something like '-Y' instead of '-y' for this regression? Would appreciate a revert to the previous behavior and its addition to pkg-add. Roger >Those lines are used in the sense of "make sure that pkg1, pkg2 and >pkg3 are all installed after this command". Now the new change totally >breaks this behaviour.
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