Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:53:02 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020709185302.GL56853@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <agacqn$1tv4$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20020708.094652.21114246.imp@village.org> <20020709073309.GB96335@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709082753.GA60250@mithrandr.moria.org> <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:50:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > I should have said more -- it requires the packages to be local. This > means if I want to update something I practically have to download all ?5? > GB of packages from ftp.freebsd.org so that what ever package portupgrade > might want will be available to it. Portupgrade really needs to grow the > functionality of `pkg_add -r'. Umm.. it does support it. It even does a better job than pkg_add on this front, in that it's configurable. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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