On 26/03/07, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new
> ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one
> of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps,
> there are going to be at least a dozen minor tweaks every day.
Possibly, for a very busy program with multiple authors actively
making changes. Normally, projects accumulate such changes and only
release point version updates perhaps every month or so, and most
have updates available much less often than that.
> E.g.:going from foo-1.6.7_2 to foo-1.6.7_3.
Portrevision bumps commonly happen when an underlying dependency
changes; you generally don't get any changes to foo itself, unless
the program version itself changes.
> I used to run
> port[upgrade|manager] twice/week. Was swamped; recently,
> upgrading things daily. Since a lot of the wm ports take
> > 24 hours to build/re-build, I'm pretty much wedged. Thus
> this suggestion (for all port/package upgrade suites):
> have a flag, say 'u' for "urgent" when *foo*" goes from
> foo-1.6.7 to -1.6.8 or else when/if foo makes a critical
> fix.
There's an easier way: you can probably wait to rebuild ports until
you see something listed in portaudit's output, or you know you want
to update something being actively used to a specific known version
that you need.
Of course, Gentoo's portage system does all of this.
Of course, Gentoo's portage system is a complete
labyrinth of configuration files scattered over countless
myriads (10^4) of subdirectories so that running a mixture
of Holy-and-Blessed Versions and "testing" versions
becomes a lovely game of tag combined with memory and
$10,000 Pyramid, only fewer bleached-white teeth.
I think the addition of portaudit for such a huge (~17K ports!)
collection (and a much less strenuous upgrade cycle) is an
excellent idea.
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