Portupgrade -af question
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 27 14:15:42 PDT 2004
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:34:51PM -0700, Zoltan Frombach wrote:
> >Yes. Wouldn't it be a nice feature for "portupgrade -P" to install the
> >port instead of the package if any non-defaults were defined in
> >pkgtools.conf?
>
> If you really want to add this to portupgrade, it should be optional,
> though. Because someone might have a broken compiler or something and just
> wants to install a binary package quickly. In that case it should be
> possible to force a binary package installation regardless of what's inside
> the pkgtools.conf file. Don't you agree?
'portupgrade -PP' can still be used for that.
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