[ANNOUNCEMENT] The pkgsrc-2008Q2 Branch

[Constantine A. Murenin]

On 27/07/2008, Cristi Magherusan <cristi.magherusan at net.utcluj.ro> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 08:43 +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
>  > The pkgsrc-2008Q2 Branch
>  > ========================
>  >
>  > The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q2
>  > branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches.
>  > As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of
>  > pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler
>  > support.
>
>
> Congratulations and many thanks to everyone who contributed!
>
>  For the future releases, do you have any plans to include an officially
>  supported tool that will properly update/rebuild all or some of the
>  installed packages on a system, without removing everything and
>  rebuilding from scratch, while still maintaining the binary consistency
>  of the system? I'm thinking at something like the portupgrade tool from
>  FreeBSD.

Or like `pkg_add -u` on OpenBSD? :-)

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-espie/

br,
cnst.su.