From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 12:10:56 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 C47F416A41F for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:10:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from orac000@internet-mail.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D73D43D45 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:10:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from orac000@internet-mail.org) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCD0D3C8E2; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:10:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:10:55 -0500 Received: by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id BE7E82EC; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:10:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1142079054.9555.256373197@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: Qy/kuD+AZC4Q+zLMZ832s8uyAx4yjT0bzm0Mr/Hp8MPi 1142079054 From: "Aluminium Oxide" To: "Kris Kennaway" , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 5022 (F2.72; T1.15; A1.62; B3.04; Q3.03) References: <1142054372.14978.256358031@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20060311060002.GA40638@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060311060002.GA40638@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:40:54 +1030 Cc: 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 12:10:56 -0000 On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:00:02 -0500, "Kris Kennaway" 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.