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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:57:42 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for comments - pkg_trans
Message-ID:  <g6sgcu$juo$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080731063401.GA97576@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
References:  <g6res0$giq$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080731063401.GA97576@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06:25:27AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I apologize in advance if what I'm trying to do seems stupid or it has=
 =20
>> already existed since the Dawn of Time (i.e. when McKusick was in =20
>> diapers) but I'd like your comments on this idea:
>>
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/IvanVoras/PkgTransProposal
>>
>> I can write the pkg_trans utility and modify the C utilities (pkg_add,=
 =20
>> pkg_delete, if they're sane) but I can't do makefiles and ruby, so if =
=20
>> this is to work, I'll need some help :)
>=20
> This looks quite cool, especially the fact that it'd be tied into
> pkg_add and pkg_delete.
>=20
> By "makefiles" are you referring to the ports/Mk stuff, or are you
> referring to actual Makefiles for src/usr.sbin/pkg_install (which is
> ultimately where pkg_trans should go)?

I'm thinking of ports/Mk - I suspect it will get hairy to add pkg_trans=20
to the "make install" and similar processes on the ports.

> And I assume by "ruby" you're referring to the portupgrade tie-ins.

Yes.



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