On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:28:35 +0200 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > The port sysutils/bsdadminscripts has just been updated to > version 6.0, which features pkg_upgrade, a binary only > package maintenance tool. > It makes no use of the ports tree, so unlike other build > oriented tools, you do not need a copy of the ports tree > to keep your packages up to date. > It only requires an INDEX file from pointyhead or your > personal Tinderbox.
Great! T've done some tests at my home machine and I really like this tool. I was deaming for it for a long time. And it works much faster than "portupgrade -PP". > Thanks go to Markus Schöpke and his employer > http://www.webstyle.ch (FreeBSD hosting) for extensive > feedback, testing and providing me with hardware to perform > my own tests. +1 Thanks! > Also featuring this release is UMA, a simple package/ports > meta data maintenance and locking script, to provide > consistency and locking for the coexistence of several > package maintenance tools. The port ports-mgmt/kports-qt4 > will make use of UMA in future versions. > pkg_upgrade will, among other things, support parallel > background downloading from several mirrors with the next > version. This has already been implemented, but has not > yet received sufficient testing to make it into this > release. This would be very usefull too. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"