From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 8 8:47:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857A537B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6288143E09 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:47:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g68FlJY67464; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:47:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g68FlIG98049; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:47:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 09:46:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020708.094652.21114246.imp@village.org> To: naddy@mips.inka.de Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes: : Compared to Debian and RPM the ability to do comprehensive updates : from packages is missing. Install 500 ports. Wait a year for : revisions, library versions, and even dependencies to change all : over. Now let's upgrade all installed ports from a current set of : binary packages. That sort of thing. portupgrade does his very thing. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message