From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 02:08:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A85106568D for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:08:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AF78FC2B for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:08:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so263564uge.39 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=frZA02ol/LpyOnEnvbrl+BSNtJmHfLouRM2BudFWhwk=; b=q+rhG10pdbbqFfzzMcBm3b3xVCt7Mmu++i6tRmdQ2t2RVWzRwOoyJ0jr9A2IKXQ0aE ya7h5Hte29t/drSvdf2XObN+4ectLMutUaxnjcjnLq2jjV4YMgnxduLsrBqm8YG5fAHZ t0QerdBoPhne2wxsRIZdWBOwj/i9pF6FPyq4w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=hiZc4jt8IZ3MQpiX8hZE6I1BdJUhATEeBzmoH4SH1dzuByk8MwYZWt2BDmJrhotgPK 1S/+OnxfCS2o+uQj2cSdKu/IRZlMSoFprPLDpX0VS3OyhRx13gGrvo6b+aUZ5DtB5d5l mT+o34lUAf7txQRQ+rGNKc29sIV3Oc8FFtNno= Received: by 10.67.115.8 with SMTP id s8mr767473ugm.50.1222654134039; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.251.1 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0809281908y510ca4f0s7b250d0036e4ac84@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:53 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: "Marcin Wisnicki" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <7d6fde3d0809272111l6c89eb05i25538121afc7b479@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:08:56 -0000 On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Michel Talon >> wrote: >>> Marin Atanasov wrote: >>> >>>> So what do you think - is it worth improving upon it or it's a waste >>>> of time? >>>> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> INDEX is made available via to pkg_install within sysinstall and exists >> on mirrors in the following location: >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ARCH}/packages-${VERSION}/ > INDEX > > Would be nice if there was also INDEX.bz2. You'd need to talk to the release team about that if you don't agree with that fact; INDEX.bz2 item is a portupgrade-ism, and has its own collection of drawbacks in addition to it's pro's. > Also to be able to write an effective pkg upgrade tool one would need > something like /usr/ports/MOVED. INDEX already addresses this. FWIW, I'd get rid of the All/ indexing as it's just a mass conglomeration of all of the other categories. -Garrett