Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 12/04/2012 11:09, Chris Rees wrote: Chris, I did misread your email-- portmanager appears absolutely fine, and is in no danger of removal :) That's good to know thank you. Sorry, portupgrade to portmanager was a bit of a sneaky corner. Chris __

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.04.2012 22:02, schrieb Jerry: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:13:54 +0100 > Chris Whitehouse articulated: > >> I'm only a lurker and lowly user but could I humbly request that >> portmanager is brought back into use? It's simple to use and does >> what it does extremely well and without fuss. I th

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:13:54 +0100 Chris Whitehouse articulated: > I'm only a lurker and lowly user but could I humbly request that > portmanager is brought back into use? It's simple to use and does > what it does extremely well and without fuss. I think the fact that > it still "just works" aft

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Bryan Drewery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2012 04:57 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > Unfortunately, many of us do not find that it 'just works'. There > is no-one to ask for support, so people resort to asking ports@ or > in IRC. > > It is also unmaintained, and has many bugs against it: I

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 April 2012 10:03, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/04/2012 10:57, Chris Rees wrote: >>> I'm only a lurker and lowly user but could I humbly request that portmanager >>> > is brought back into use? It's simple to use and does what it does >>> > extremely >>> > well and without fuss. I think the

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/04/2012 10:57, Chris Rees wrote: >> I'm only a lurker and lowly user but could I humbly request that portmanager >> > is brought back into use? It's simple to use and does what it does >> > extremely >> > well and without fuss. I think the fact that it still "just works" after >> > all >> >

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 April 2012 09:13, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 12/04/2012 04:41, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> >> On 04/12/12 03:39, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> >>> On 11 April 2012 21:55, Bryan Drewery  wrote: Hi Phillip, Your last commit on portupgrade [1] indicates to consider portmaster >>

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 12/04/2012 04:41, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: On 04/12/12 03:39, Eitan Adler wrote: On 11 April 2012 21:55, Bryan Drewery wrote: Hi Phillip, Your last commit on portupgrade [1] indicates to consider portmaster instead. What are the thoughts on this? Just the lack of a maintainer? Open PRs

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-11 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
On 04/12/12 03:39, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 11 April 2012 21:55, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> Hi Phillip, >> >> Your last commit on portupgrade [1] indicates to consider portmaster >> instead. What are the thoughts on this? Just the lack of a maintainer? > > Open PRs that indicate long lasting bugs wit

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-11 Thread Eitan Adler
On 11 April 2012 21:55, Bryan Drewery wrote: > Hi Phillip, > > Your last commit on portupgrade [1] indicates to consider portmaster > instead. What are the thoughts on this? Just the lack of a maintainer? Open PRs that indicate long lasting bugs with no upstream maintainer. If you would like to p

ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-11 Thread Bryan Drewery
Hi Phillip, Your last commit on portupgrade [1] indicates to consider portmaster instead. What are the thoughts on this? Just the lack of a maintainer? I was considering writing/submitting a patch to support pkgng with portupgrade. 1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=719045+0+/usr/loc