Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:59:28PM +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: >> Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Actually I don't think a batch download and install process would help >> much, especially for a freshly installed system because it might be a >> huge download job and much waiting time if one is going to install >> GNOME/KDE etc. from scratch. Perhaps the new `pkg_upgrade' could provide >> versatile options to complete such tasks. >> > > In fact a batch download, followed by batch install is much faster than > constant interspersing of backup, download, install, etc. like > portupgrade does. In particular there is only one ftp connection for > downloading everything which cuts on time, and you can do backups at the
Yes, you are right. I just think that people could have options while doing things. This would make the world more satisfying. > same time. If you don't beleive me you can try the prototype (in python) > that i have written a year ago, and which does precisely that: > http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkgupgrade > (which needs http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkg_save.py) > Most of the time in the script is spent recomputing the INDEX for all > installed files, because i assumed the INDEX is not necessarily up to > date. > > Yes, I've had great impressions by the debian's apt- tools. But it seems that the debian package servers maintain an index or something for all the packages. And if you want to upgrade or install a certain package, you just fetch the meta info for that package from the package server and do a comparison with your local index. This makes versioned dependencies rather easy to play around. >> >> >> -- >> Denise H. G. <darcsis AT gmail DOT com> -- Denise H. G. <darcsis AT gmail DOT com> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
