ports/134182: ports-mgmt/portupgrade incorrectly handles manual reject to upgrade

Tilman Keskinöz arved at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 26 07:43:46 UTC 2011


On 07/26/2011 07:05 AM, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Do you remember FreeBSD motto - "Tools, not policy"? You have depriven us of
> good tool to track dependencies, which still can be useful for complex
> circumstances as locally crafted packages, basing on suspect which can be
> easily fixed with one small option.

Well, it is just harder for you to shoot your foot without an automatic
tool, but all the pkg_tools still allow what you want to do.

Another option for you might be to provide a patch and apply for the job
as the future portupgrade maintainer. Then you will get the mail from
all the people that used this feature an ran into problems.





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