Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:04:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Victor Ivanov <v0rbiz@icon-bg.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports upgrade [was Package Vulnerability scanner...] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009211402490.63601-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009211220310.67465-100000@icon.icon-bg.net>
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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
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