If package(s) fail, pkgmanager won't upgrade packages that depend on the
failed package(s). Depending on how major an upgrade it is, this might
mean some software is broken until the problem is fixed, or it might mean
things continue working, with slight version discrepancies in the
On 18.10.2005, at 00:49, James Frazer wrote:
1. Are there still plans to:
a) package up the base system? (like how it's done in linux)
Not in the near future. And if, not everything, just some parts to
make it easy to remove or add them. I'm thinking of BIND and sendmail
because some
James Frazer wrote:
1. Are there still plans to:
a) package up the base system? (like how it's done in linux)
Just a side-note by me; the ability to binary-upgrade a debian linux
system via apt is a -really- timesaving function. It would be very
pleaseable to have something like this
Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
Just a side-note by me; the ability to binary-upgrade a debian linux
system via apt is a -really- timesaving function. It would be very
pleaseable to have something like this for dragonflybsd aswell.
AFAIK binary upgrading is something being worked on by the
I know there have been a million packaging debates, but I have a
few questions that I'm still unclear on:
1. Are there still plans to:
a) package up the base system? (like how it's done in linux)
b) extend pkgsrc to use VFS environments?
2. Are there any upgrade mechanisms for
