On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Marcin Wisnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:27 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Marin Atanasov wrote: >>> >>>> So what do you think - is it worth improving upon it or it's a waste >>>> of time? >>>> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> INDEX is made available via to pkg_install within sysinstall and exists >> on mirrors in the following location: >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ARCH}/packages-${VERSION}/ > INDEX > > Would be nice if there was also INDEX.bz2.
You'd need to talk to the release team about that if you don't agree with that fact; INDEX.bz2 item is a portupgrade-ism, and has its own collection of drawbacks in addition to it's pro's. > Also to be able to write an effective pkg upgrade tool one would need > something like /usr/ports/MOVED. INDEX already addresses this. FWIW, I'd get rid of the All/ indexing as it's just a mass conglomeration of all of the other categories. -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
