From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 06:00:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E7516A41F for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:00:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DC143D9A for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:00:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328221A4D81; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3A6C351601; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:00:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:00:02 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Aluminium Oxide Message-ID: <20060311060002.GA40638@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1142054372.14978.256358031@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1142054372.14978.256358031@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsupgrade cvsup refuse file aware? 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: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:00:28 -0000 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:49:32PM +1030, Aluminium Oxide wrote: > Currently, proper use of portsupgrade relies on currency of pkgdb. pkgdb > does not work without a complete ports tree. A complete ports tree is > often much larger than a locale-specific installation requires, or is > maintained, confined by the use of cvsup refuse files. This is a bit of > a catch 22. >=20 > How much better would it be, if pkgdb had a flag to permit the parsing > of the refuse file, and honouring the ports tree resulting from cvsup as > produced by it? >=20 > Can we do this? Not really, this has been discussed many times. Kris --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEEmdhWry0BWjoQKURAii+AKDoePknb6mA4kcaJ//1h3020eFh5ACg9ryV 7GR8PKW4ltFWatnHQF/g4MA= =nsms -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--