a proposal for the packaging system

[Andreas Hauser]

chopra wrote @ Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:08:46 -0400:

> 1. Rollback
> 
>    This isn't something to leave by the wayside. A lot of the admins
>    I've spoken to are less than happy using ports for say, a critical
>    Apache server. If they need to upgrade (security, etc.), and the new
>    port is broken, they're toast. So they end up building everything
>    from source without involving the ports system.

If they build packages, they can just install the old ones
(make package or portupgrade -p).
Also keeping around the checkout dates of the CVS and
testing on a test machine or test jail helps.
The VFS magic might ease that further.


Andy