purely package-based/oriented solution

[Philip M. Gollucci]

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Pav Lucistnik wrote:
| 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.
|
Have you ever even run portupgrade without /usr/ports ?
$ sudo umount /usr/ports
$ sudo
PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.p6m7g8.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-current/Latest/
PACKAGES=/tmp portupgrade -abPPr
cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
** Port directory not found: www/apache22
** Port directory not found: devel/apr
** Port directory not found: shells/bash
** Port directory not found: ftp/curl
** Port directory not found: databases/db41
** Port directory not found: textproc/expat2
** Port directory not found: net/isc-dhcp3-server
** Port directory not found: converters/libiconv
** Port directory not found: databases/mysql51-client
** Port directory not found: www/neon
** Port directory not found: security/p5-Digest-HMAC
** Port directory not found: security/p5-Digest-SHA1
** Port directory not found: math/p5-Math-BigInt
** Port directory not found: dns/p5-Net-DNS
** Port directory not found: net-mgmt/p5-Net-IP
** Port directory not found: devel/pcre
** Port directory not found: lang/perl5.8
.....



Errors a plenty.


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