On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:55:41AM +0100, Nikolay Sturm wrote: > * Peter Hessler [2007-12-09]: > > Does pkg_add -u handle ports that can't be distributed as binaries > > (i.e. updates to Java)? Last I checked, that wasn't available. > > Not yet. It is planned to have support for sth called src-URL, which > points to your ports tree, where pkg_add will find updates to java and > other undistributable packages. Nobody (except for espie@ maybe) knows > when this feature will be committed, though. :)
The feature is in, actually... it just has one `annoying' bug wrt locking the package database... thus it unlocks it temporarily in order to build packages... I think I'm going to do things the other way around, and make it possible for the ports to work with an already locked database...
