Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:53 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Marcin Wisnicki" <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0809281908y510ca4f0s7b250d0036e4ac84@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <gbost5$a8l$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <7d6fde3d0809272111l6c89eb05i25538121afc7b479@mail.gmail.com> <gbost5$a8l$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> >> wrote: >>> Marin Atanasov wrote: >>> >>>> So what do you think - is it worth improving upon it or it's a waste >>>> of time? >>>> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> INDEX is made available via to pkg_install within sysinstall and exists >> on mirrors in the following location: >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${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
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