Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:45:30 +0000 From: Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade: integration with the main FreeBSD tree? Message-ID: <20011220004530.GD29709@gw.tex.bogus> In-Reply-To: <20011220013511.L10171@md2.mediadesign.nl> References: <20011220000802.GB99222@gw.tex.bogus> <20011220013511.L10171@md2.mediadesign.nl>
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Hi, Yes, you right. The same happens with other powerfull tool: cvsup. For a long time that I use cvsup port and I never had the same idea like this one related to portupgrade. Well, let's use the port! Thanks very much, Nuno Teixeira On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 01:35:12AM +0100, Alson van der Meulen wrote: | On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:08:02AM +0000, Nuno Teixeira wrote: | > Portupgrade is a powerfull tool and I'd like to make the | > following question: | > - why not integrate portupgrade with the main FreeBSD tree? | > | [..] | > | > I'm not a programmer to talk about Ruby or other language, but I'd like to know | > if there is any solution like: | > | > - change Ruby to other language so that portupgrade can be integrated in FreeBSD? | Might be hard to do, or the auther might disagree. The same goes for | cvsup, that is written in modula-3, an even more obscure language :P | | Cvsup isn't in the base system either, just installing as port/package | works fine too. Maybe sysinstall could suggest to install cvsup and/or | portupgrade packages by default? | > | > - integrate Ruby with the main FreeBSD tree and then integrate portupgrade too? | Ruby is GPL, I guess yet another GPL package won't be imported | > | > I see no problem at all to use portupgrade port, but I think that it is a | > great funcionality to FreeBSD if portupgrade was part of it. | Sure it is | | Just my 0.02 euro, | Alson | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Nuno Teixeira pt-quorum.com /* PGP Public Key: http://www.pt-quorum.com/pgp/nunoteixeira.asc Key fingerprint: 8C2C B364 D4DC 0C92 56F5 CE6F 8F07 720A 63A0 4FC7 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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