Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 13:30:19 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg request Message-ID: <20160406113019.GA23568@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <20160406110338.GK49864@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20160406094454.GA18810@gvr.gvr.org> <20160406110338.GK49864@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:03:38PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: > > First thanks for pkgng, it made life a lot easier here. > > I have a feature request: > > sometimes ports are removed completely (e.g. textproc/py-xml), > > or there are multiple supported versions and an old > > version is removed, > > e.g. net/isc-dhcp42-server > > > > When I have the corresponding packages installed, it is not easy > > to identify these packages (sometimes such remobal is documented in > > UPDATING bt for the above examples that is not the case). > > > > It would be a nice option if one of the pkg tools could identify packages > > that have an origin that no longer exists in the ports tree. Perhaps even > > that pkg upgrade would delete these packages with a sepcial option. > > would be > > happy to create a patch if it weren't for the fact that I don't really > > know the right place/tool to add it to. > > > > pkg version -voRL '?' > > > All the one noted as orphaned does not exists remotely anymore. > > Be aware that if for if a package fails to build and is not anymore on the > remote repositories it will also be marked as orphaned. > Hi Baptiste, Thanks! (should be -voRl though ;-) -Guido
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