My wish list for 6.1

[Ceri Davies]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:37:20AM -0500, Allen wrote:
> On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:55, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:55:00AM +0000, Allen wrote:

> > > I know about the port tool, but what I'd love to have is a tool you
> > > could run from the CLI or the GUI that would check for updates, and
> > > then ask which ones to install, similar to Swaret on Slackware. This
> > > way people can do the usual updates if they want, and people like me
> > > can show people BSD and how great it is.
> >
> > You probably haven't seen ports/security/freebsd-update yet.
> 
> Actually, I've seen that and it does come close... But it didn't seem to like 
> updating the Kernel or anything similar to the base system in the time I 
> spent with it.

Look harder; those are the *only* things it will update.  This is not
portupgrade.

Ceri
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