CFT: adding configuration file support to pkg_install
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jun 2 14:58:28 UTC 2008
On Saturday 31 May 2008 08:38:27 pm Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > packages are usually built from the ports tree, but not always, and
> > users may use packages without a ports tree present on the local system.
>
> short of doing pkg_delete -af then pkg_add /some/dir
> are there any ports-mgmt/* tools for upgrades that don't need the ports
> tree present. I know portupgrade does.
>
> Thats not an argument for or against, just commentary.
There are proprietary tools that manage packages of proprietary software that
run on FreeBSD embedded devices.
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John Baldwin
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