purely package-based/oriented solution

[Andriy Gapon]

on 23/04/2008 01:37 Pav Lucistnik said the following:
> Andriy Gapon píše v út 22. 04. 2008 v 22:41 +0300:
>> Sorry if this is something obvious or a FAQ.
>>
>> Is there a tool for purely package-based management of third-party software?
>> That is, something that meets the following criteria:
>> 1. doesn't require ports tree
>> 2. works similarly to package installation in FreeBSD installer
>> 3. can properly handle upgrading packages (including dependencies)
>> 4. can check remote package repositories and, based on timestamp or
>> INDEX, can find new versions for installed packages
>> 5. can verify that all dependencies would be met before downloading all
>> packages in full (e.g. based on INDEX data or can download initial
>> blocks of packages, so that package metadata could be extracted and
>> examined).
> 
> portupgrade should be able to do 1-4, I don't know if 5 too.
> 

BTW, strange thing:
$ portupgrade -a -PP
...
** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/linux_kdump:
        does not build with the default linux base, use the package instead

What's this about? :-) I do say to use packages only.

-- 
Andriy Gapon