Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> On Monday 05 July 2004 04:02, Rob wrote:
>> Colin Percival wrote:
>>> At 08:12 04/07/2004, Joel Dahl wrote:
>>>> 1) Is there a need for a rewrite of cvsup and portupgrade in C so 
>>>> that
>>>> they can be included in the base system?
>>>
>>> Yes please. :-)
>>
>> I remember that portupgrade is intentionally not in the base system, to
>> allow easier updates for a running system. This way it can be more 
>> often
>> updated than the official releases, to reflect changes in the ports 
>> system.
>
> And that's a good thing. Perhaps somebody wants to investigate if some 
> sort of
> packages-only, C based updater which does not need a local ports tree 
> to work
> is feasible. That could very well have a place in the base-system and 
> also
> further promote and ease the use of binary packages.

Which doesn't mean it couldn't be part of the 'ports base'. I'm 
investigating
whether a combination of pkg_install and bsd.port.mk couldn't make a
`make upgrade' feasible. Currently we just upgrade the pkg_install tools 
on
older systems by installing them as a port, so no problems from this 
side...

-Oliver