Utility for safe updating of ports in base system

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 13 16:17:50 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:01:15PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:21:10 +1100 Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
> > Note that UFS is a database: If I've understood you correctly, the
> > main problem is that there is no appropriate index to map a port
> > directory to an installed package name.  This could be fixed...
> 
> sorry to be late.  how about creating a special directory holding
> symlinks from package names to port directories?

The other way around.


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