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Martin Costabel wrote:

> OTOH, I am more and more convinced that all the energy that currently
> goes into constructing an upgrade path from 10.4-transitional to 10.4 is
> misspent and would better be used for getting new bindists faster out of
> the door. What I would love to see is support for the sequence

Part of the reason for updating all the deps is so that a new bindist
would properly update everything...

> a.  dump list of currently installed packages
> b.  rm -rf /sw
> c.  install new Fink from bindist installer or bootstrap
> d.  fink install < list of previously installed packages
> 
> We had support for a and d at one time by producing a package that has
> all currently installed packages as dependencies, but it was shot down
> for the single reason that debfoster might get confused by this. I'd
> rather dump debfoster and get such a system back.

Yes, this would be a nice tool.  If I get the time, I'll see if I can
work on it some.  I believe at least some of this is already done.


- --
Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick
http://ranger.befunk.com/


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