W dniu 2014-02-06 14:04, John Marino pisze: > On 2/6/2014 13:58, Rick Miller wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dneb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I suspect he meant "a certain version, and *not* newer" - sometimes >>> you might want to hold back a package. >> Correct. My wish is the functionality be extended further to mean "a >> certain version *or* newer", encompassing both features. Thus, allowing >> him to say "port-1.1", while I say "port-1.4 or newer" or even "port-1.0 or >> newer". > As an observer, all I can say is "Don't get your hopes up" on this one. > Hundreds of ports are bumped with majority dependency changes for a > reason. The tree is treated as an integrated entity, not 25,000 > interchangeable parts. > > It would take major technology shift, something closer to what PC-BSD's > pbi things do/did. Ports itself isn't geared for this. Maybe some kind > of package archive could be used though, if "pkg" solvers could be made > to handle such requests. Sounds like an extremely difficult request to > me though. Gentoo's portage has this capability and it works quite well. I'd love to see it in FreeBSD. -- best regards, Lukasz Wasikowski _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
