Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:18:46 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?xYF1a2FzeiBXxIVzaWtvd3NraQ==?= <lukasz@wasikowski.net> To: marino@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools Message-ID: <52F3EE26.7040706@wasikowski.net> In-Reply-To: <52F38850.6080108@marino.st> References: <201402052202.s15M2Lha059200@fire.js.berklix.net> <52F2C0C8.5010203@gmx.de> <CAN6yY1uyXNp_c4PruKM89S9g0Y0QAs02cu5Z-dx3oSg1yZC19Q@mail.gmail.com> <52F32F7C.2030601@infracaninophile.co.uk> <CAHcXP%2Be1orionpYmyTWweC02mqU8B1FzZV=T4BEmdyekN%2BJxuA@mail.gmail.com> <CAHzLAVES7V_wg1JPS_L4a5zhr6Fyu=q=c1MN2OwkB0N-CdQ-vA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2Bt49PKJ08ggRR%2BYrqv7n3=2dLEy-87ntWBWX35Tnk5Up8dY9Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAHzLAVHHKCKZ3TgKVRiuZFqSh2aX%2B2LqkQXg_QKHyNfD5eq9AQ@mail.gmail.com> <52F38850.6080108@marino.st>
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W dniu 2014-02-06 14:04, John Marino pisze: > On 2/6/2014 13:58, Rick Miller wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" - sometimes >>> you might want to hold back a package. >> Correct. My wish is the functionality be extended further to mean "a >> certain version *or* newer", encompassing both features. Thus, allowing >> him to say "port-1.1", while I say "port-1.4 or newer" or even "port-1.0 or >> newer". > As an observer, all I can say is "Don't get your hopes up" on this one. > Hundreds of ports are bumped with majority dependency changes for a > reason. The tree is treated as an integrated entity, not 25,000 > interchangeable parts. > > It would take major technology shift, something closer to what PC-BSD's > pbi things do/did. Ports itself isn't geared for this. Maybe some kind > of package archive could be used though, if "pkg" solvers could be made > to handle such requests. Sounds like an extremely difficult request to > me though. Gentoo's portage has this capability and it works quite well. I'd love to see it in FreeBSD. -- best regards, Lukasz Wasikowski
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