Chris Turner wrote: > Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > >> My by far most important gripe w/ pkgsrc is the inability to do mass >> upgrades from binary packages in a straightforward manner. Not even sure >> if it's anything the pkgsrc developers are concerned with. > > Can't you do this if you have the right make targets (e.g. check binary > packages first) and pkg_rolling-replace?
Notice 'straightforward'. Consider also 'reliable'. The competition has 'single command' also. > I think the problem you mean is more is 'mass upgrades from binary > packages in a remote location' .. Yes. > I think yeah - a lot of pkgsrc folks have a site-local > /usr/pkgsrc/packages hanging out in their automounter somewhere .. How would that help w/ my problem? Let me mention here that I appreciate pkgsrc and I think it's the only viable solution for DragonFly for the forseeable future. But it is still not where I'd want it to be. Aggelos
