HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Jan 14 14:08:39 PST 2005


On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:03:44AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:55:59PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > This keeps getting suggested under various names, but you need to
> > solve the compatibility problem.
> 
> Isn't that resolved by modifying ports/sysutils/pkg_install and
> noting it in ports/UPDATING?

That would be a big cop-out - it's hardly friendly to make every port
user update to -stable or take manual steps to avoid a broken package
system.  There needs to be a better solution than that.

Kris
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