Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:40:54 +1030 From: "Aluminium Oxide" <orac000@internet-mail.org> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsupgrade cvsup refuse file aware? Message-ID: <1142079054.9555.256373197@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20060311060002.GA40638@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1142054372.14978.256358031@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20060311060002.GA40638@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:00:02 -0500, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> said: > 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. > > > > 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? > > > > Can we do this? > >Not really, this has been discussed many times. > > Kris Why not? -- Aluminium Oxide orac000@internet-mail.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.
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