Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:49:05 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system Message-ID: <47E2F7F1.5000002@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1206054541.83260.50.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0803191454030.48140@ync.qbhto.arg> <47E2EA72.8000309@FreeBSD.org> <1206054541.83260.50.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
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Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Kris Kennaway píše v čt 20. 03. 2008 v 23:51 +0100: > >>> A user pointed out to me that on the project ideas page the following >>> entry remains: >>> >>> Write a new utility for the pkg_install suite, possibly named >>> pkg_upgrade(1), implementing a subset of existing portupgrade >>> functionality. The required functionality is: >> FWIW, I have no idea why this is on the project list. I suspect it was >> added by someone without any consensus that it's a good idea. > > That was me, a year ago. > >> We have several upgrade tools in ports, and that is where they belong. >> Any effort should be spent on improving existing tools, unless you can >> make a really good case why they are fundamentally flawed and need to be >> rewritten from scratch, discarding all of the previous work on them. > > Since then portmaster matured, so we might think about removing the item > from Ideas list. > > I can't agree with you that the upgrading utilities have to stay in > ports. I'd very much like to see one of them be present in the base. > Well as I said, no consensus :) In the past we've even talked about how to move all of pkg_* out of src and into ports, i.e. the opposite case. Having new pkg_tools features deployed globally across all branches at once will solve a lot of problems to do with being able to make use of new features now instead of having to wait N years until every currently supported release is deprecated. Kris
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