Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing!

2009-11-08 Thread Doug Barton
Howdy! I'm very pleased to announce that the first version of portmaster with package support is ready for beta testing. :) I'd like to thank all those who have been so generous in supporting this work. It's really a great feeling not only knowing that the community is supportive of my efforts, bu

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing!

2009-11-08 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Doug Barton wrote: Howdy! I'm very pleased to announce that the first version of portmaster with package support is ready for beta testing. :) I'd like to thank all those who have been so generous in supporting this work. It's really a great feeling not only knowing that the community is support

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-08 Thread Michel Talon
Miroslav Lachman wrote: >I take a quick look at the code and I have one question. Can you explain >way --no-deps and --force are used for pkg_add? I can only venture an explanation. Once you have computed a good order for upgrading via packages, you cannot accept that pkg_add ruins your computat

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-08 Thread Doug Barton
Michel Talon wrote: > Miroslav Lachman wrote: >> I take a quick look at the code and I have one question. Can you explain >> way --no-deps and --force are used for pkg_add? > > > I can only venture an explanation. Once you have computed a good order > for upgrading via packages, you cannot accep

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-09 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Doug Barton wrote: Michel Talon wrote: Miroslav Lachman wrote: I take a quick look at the code and I have one question. Can you explain way --no-deps and --force are used for pkg_add? I can only venture an explanation. Once you have computed a good order for upgrading via packages, you canno

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-09 Thread Michel Talon
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:05:45PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > Does it mean that one needs ports tree or provide custom INDEX in case > of custom packages with non default options (different dependencies) to > compute order od dependencies? > (AFAIK plain pkg_add works without ports tree

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-09 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:21:06PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > ... > For the above reasons i think that using precompiled packages should be > restricted to people who don't mess with the standard settings. When you > install some Debian packages you take them as is, and things generally > work be

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-09 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Michel Talon wrote: On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:05:45PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: [...] For the above reasons i think that using precompiled packages should be restricted to people who don't mess with the standard settings. When you install some Debian packages you take them as is, and th

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-09 Thread Doug Barton
Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Does it mean that one needs ports tree or provide custom INDEX in case > of custom packages with non default options (different dependencies) to > compute order od dependencies? The INDEX file is not involved at all. Portmaster still uses the ports tree only to determine

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing!

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Nov-08 12:56:52 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >I'm very pleased to announce that the first version of portmaster with >package support is ready for beta testing. :) Thank you for your efforts. >support next. I don't think ftp support is going to be possible unless >I can find a creative way

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-10 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> Michel Talon wrote: >>> Miroslav Lachman wrote: I take a quick look at the code and I have one question. Can you explain way --no-deps and --force are used for pkg_add? >>> >>> >>> I can only venture an explanation. Once you have comput

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-11 Thread Michel Talon
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:46:17PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > If you want to work without a ports tree use pkg_upgrade > (sysutils/bsdadminscripts), it only requires an INDEX file. > > The next version will also require the MOVED file (as is now > provided by Pointyhead). Very nice, your pro