From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 21 14: 4:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C940437B43E; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA73290; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:04:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Victor Ivanov Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports upgrade [was Package Vulnerability scanner...] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Victor Ivanov wrote: > Hi and sorry, this message is not related to security So it should have gone to -ports. Don't send off-topic messages. > I have updated the ports collection and the 3.5 stable base source, tar-ed > everything and then use it to upgrade a newly installed 3.4-release to > 3.5-stable. But the pm3 port was the old 1.1.13 and cvsup depended on > 1.1.14 (on the newest ports collection). Now I have to download 20 > megabytes just for this reason: 'Upgrade to pm3-1.1.14. This eliminates > 103 patch files. :-)' > > Is there any way to update the ports distfiles (something like cvsup)? Not currently. > I see there are both pm3-1.1.13 and pm3-1.1.14 distfiles on > ftp.freebsd.org... Maybe a target in the makefile which extracts the > package distfile (first find what version we have), download the > (small) patches, apply them and optionaly re-create the archive (and > rename it)? > > Ofcorse, someone should create the patches :) Indeed :-) It would probably be difficult because there's no foolproof way to associate a particular old distfile with a given port, since file names can and do change. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message