Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:30:26 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using pre-built packages with portmanager Message-ID: <20060807173026.GA8717@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <200608071740.24523.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <20060805171645.GA948@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <200608071603.01848.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20060807151229.GA8243@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <200608071740.24523.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:40:23PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Monday 07 August 2006 16:12, cpghost wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:03:00PM +0100, RW wrote: > > > > A key design feature of portmanager is that everything is built with > > > up-to-date dependencies, having this kind of feature would, in general, > > > defeat that. > > > > Why would that? The port trees themselves are synchronized; just the > > set of installed ports ain't. The packages generated on the different > > machines are absolutely identical AFAICS; including their dependencies. > > There's no point in recompiling them separately if the result is the > > same on all machines. That's why I'd like to reuse the newly created > > packages. > > But it would be very complicated for portmanager to determine whether a > package file meets it's exacting standards for "up-to-date", especially since > most people that would want to use such a feature, would want to get 6-stable > packages. > > The developer always said that he wanted it to be a simple way of keeping a > system up-to-date from source, and not general purpose ports/package tool. > And AFAIK he's lost interest in it. That's sad. It was such a nice tool. > What you might do is compile your collection of packages, install them with > portupgrade and optionally run portmanager after to clean up any problems. Yup, that's the trick! Thanks again for the hints! :) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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