On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Justin Edward Muniz <justin.mu...@maine.edu> wrote: >> >> I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be >> useful. >> >> One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may >> already have similar things. >> >> Very interesting, I am checking out the source for PC-BSD's updater to > study it. > Portsnap and pkgng seem like interesting projects, would it be bizarre to > combine > functionality into one GUI? I need to do more research on pkgng, I am more > familiar > with the other commands.
Please don't mix the two, they are related but their usages do not really overlap. portsnap(8) only deals with keeping the ports(7) tree and the /usr/ports/INDEX file up to date. PKGNG (like the old pkg_* tools) is mostly concerned with registering built ports as packages or installing pre-built packages in the system. Some functionality of it does use the ports tree but it does not depend on it. I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools do not offer at the moment? -Kimmo _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
