Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

[Jeremy Messenger]

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:34:47 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On 2005-08-17, Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>:
>>:Hiten Pandya wrote:
>>:
>>:> 
>>:> In my opinion, the option to build packages is only useful to people who 
>>:> want extreme modifications to their applications.  I am sure most 
>>:> people, including me would not really care about source packages; I for 
>>:> one would not bother building OpenOffice or KDE locally, total waste of 
>>:> time.
>>:
>>:I totally agree with you.
>>:
>>:> 
>>:> Extremely important to get binary package management right, including 
>>:> dependency handling, (automatic) updating.
>>:> 
>>:
>>:Yes. But how do you manage those softs, unfortunately extremely 
>>:important, which cannot be delivered in binary form, like Java,
>>:and their dependencies?
>>:If it was not for these softs, and some other softs like Gnome, which 
>>:are constantly broken for any reason, i have the impression (illusion?)
>>:that portupgrade -PP would do the job perfectly.
>>:
>>
>>    Illusion.   Every time I have ever used portupgrade, the result has
>>    been a completely broken system.  Every time.
> 
> You must be doing something "wrong" (i.e. not the supported way) in
> order for it to misbehave so badly.  Portupgrade is just not that
> broken if you understand how to use it.

I agree and the /usr/ports/UPDATING will let us know if any update needs
to do something special if portupgrade will not work very well for like a
huge update of GNOME, Perl and etc for example.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Kris