From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 6 12:23:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C06D3E1 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x231.google.com (mail-lb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B26651D7D for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f177.google.com with SMTP id w6so403545lbh.8 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 04:23:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=4nhl0tCXevo4dBdGd2ddvdzdHVzXe8QqEax7/bxh5MM=; b=AXErfeGMHG9RTJZdxOwIpdhBE+qYxv143rLwceEcwPhy4ky0C52Pbdaci2hr07vXPw FqOteL8FSbiq/qFZ4DJmr4YiUCMVnFOzrzXX6jkSnuEFG3iDkggn6QaFfc1wvTRgzmjw HxVH16ISiC5r8PLh7BF5DEUo/jEeRZ+Fy/XaPacYw73L8mnMR/Mec7HGd8FHX+F51wUw mmddQmNTavLWd9HdHe3i3jwwAQkBbHY+kAuanMND4mvx9O0NG/no/6toa3EHko8xte1H i9VVA4273ZgywuhM/TCF966i6AG3+SVVnrqEyO0gu/CFIhw7hkZGIxUSlfWT6XmdqqHi URSA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.5.101 with SMTP id r5mr758527lar.56.1391689402652; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 04:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.61.66 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 04:23:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:23:22 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools From: Daniel Nebdal To: Rick Miller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Big Lebowski , freebsd-ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:23:25 -0000 On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Rick Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Big Lebowski wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Matthew Seaman < >> m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >> >> > >> > I'd be interested to hear what features you think are missing. We will >> > implement anything (eventually...) that there is demand for and that is >> > technically feasible, and that fits with the overall concept of what we >> > think a packaging system should do. There's a number of ideas in the >> > github issue list already (usually tagged with 'longterm' or 'thinking') >> > and we are happy for people to add to that, or to discuss ideas -- the >> > freebsd-pkg@ list is a good place for that. >> > >> >> The ability to install certain package version, instead of installing >> simply the latest one. Please, please, pretty please! :) > > > I echo this sentiment, but I would like to take it a step further and say > "a certain version or greater". > > I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" - sometimes you might want to hold back a package. -- Daniel Nebdal