Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 1:37:12 -0000 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: "Oliver Eikemeier" <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>, "Michael Nottebrock" <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com>
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> > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > On Monday 05 July 2004 04:02, Rob wrote: > >> Colin Percival wrote: > >>> At 08:12 04/07/2004, Joel Dahl wrote: > >>>> 1) Is there a need for a rewrite of cvsup and portupgrade in C so > >>>> that > >>>> they can be included in the base system? > >>> > >>> Yes please. :-) > >> > >> I remember that portupgrade is intentionally not in the base system, to > >> allow easier updates for a running system. This way it can be more > >> often > >> updated than the official releases, to reflect changes in the ports > >> system. > > > > And that's a good thing. Perhaps somebody wants to investigate if some > > sort of > > packages-only, C based updater which does not need a local ports tree > > to work > > is feasible. That could very well have a place in the base-system and > > also > > further promote and ease the use of binary packages. > > Which doesn't mean it couldn't be part of the 'ports base'. I'm > investigating > whether a combination of pkg_install and bsd.port.mk couldn't make a > `make upgrade' feasible. Currently we just upgrade the pkg_install tools > on > older systems by installing them as a port, so no problems from this > side... > > -Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Please forgive the horrible web mail client formatting. I'd like to note that Maxime (mux@) is working on csup (and it's mostly finished from what I hear); a C implementation of cvsup. Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell
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