Re: stretching the limits of the ports framework

2008-10-19 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:47:15AM +0200, Marc Espie said that You won't get any cookie from me, because you're attacking this from the wrong point of view. the basic premise, perhaps incorrect was, that i don't touch the packages i modify, just overwrite a couple of files and delete some

Re: stretching the limits of the ports framework

2008-10-19 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 09:28:29AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:47:15AM +0200, Marc Espie said that You won't get any cookie from me, because you're attacking this from the wrong point of view. the basic premise, perhaps incorrect was, that i don't touch

Re: stretching the limits of the ports framework

2008-10-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:09:38PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: here is what i want to do: i am using the ports framework to automate a process which overwrites/deletes some existing files of installed packages. overwriting is not a problem and deleting these mutilated packages with

stretching the limits of the ports framework

2008-10-15 Thread frantisek holop
here is what i want to do: i am using the ports framework to automate a process which overwrites/deletes some existing files of installed packages. overwriting is not a problem and deleting these mutilated packages with pkg_delete -q is ok too. but how can i delete some existing files before

Re: stretching the limits of the ports framework

2008-10-15 Thread Jim Razmus
* frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081015 13:14]: here is what i want to do: i am using the ports framework to automate a process which overwrites/deletes some existing files of installed packages. Doesn't this compromise the pkg system right from the start? The point of packages is to

Re: stretching the limits of the ports framework

2008-10-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:39:57PM -0400, Jim Razmus said that Doesn't this compromise the pkg system right from the start? The point of packages is to manage the orderly addition and removal of software while accounting for dependencies. yes it does :] read on. Shouldn't the old