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Date:      Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:38:47 +0300
From:      Dancho Penev <dpenev@mnet.bg>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading ports
Message-ID:  <20040807113847.GA637@earth.dpsca.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20040806185645.GM19789@toxic.magnesium.net>
References:  <20040805205401.GA1050@earth.dpsca.bg> <20040806185645.GM19789@toxic.magnesium.net>

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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:56:45PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:56:45 -0400
>From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>
>To: Dancho Penev <dpenev@mnet.bg>
>Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: upgrading ports
>
>>> (08.05.2004 @ 1654 PST): Dancho Penev said, in 0.8K: <<
>> Hi everybody,
>>=20
>> I wonder why ports system haven't possibilities for automatically upgrad=
e ?
>> Do you have anything against ? or
>> It's like that because nobody doesn't create them yet, and everybody
>> use portupgrade.
>>> end of "upgrading ports" from Dancho Penev <<
>
>portupgrade is a really powerful program. If it weren't for the fact
>that it's written in ruby, it would most likely be distributed as part
>of the ports system. portupgrade is what everybody uses, and for that
>reason, nobody has written anything else to do what it does.

I haven't used portupgrade yet. I have no doubt that it's a very good
tool, but I think that systems like "ports system" must have build-in
support for features like that, instead to depends on extra programs.
Once again, don't get me wrong, I haven't anything against portupgrade,
but I'm feeling very well with "make deinstall" or "make install", so
why don't we have "make upgrade" for instance ? I'm working on something
similar and I just wonder why nobody was done this before, it's not a
big challenge, just a couple of lines.

>
># Adam
>
>
>--
>Adam Weinberger
>adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org
>adamw@vectors.cx    ||   adamw@gnome.org
>http://www.vectors.cx
>

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