Andreas Hauser wrote:
But you have no solution. portupgrade works fine here. It is a mature tool and is up to the task. While "bmake update" is not and there are a lot of problems with it...
I agree with everything you say about pkg_chk versus portupgrade: pkg_chk -u is not a good solution (most of the time). That is why the pkgsrc/wip/pkgmanager project was started by Peter Schuller (www.scode.org/pkgmanager). He is very sympathetic to our complaints, because he has the *same* complaints! I have emailed Peter several times with suggestions about how to improve his pkgmanager and he has been very happy to have my grumpy input ;o) I think pkgmanager is going to be the answer to our problem -- given a bit more time and more work. Joerg and asmodai have stopped supporting dfports and have started working on pkgsrc for technical reasons that are beyond my poor ability to understand -- so the FreeBSD ports system on DragonFly is dead beyond any possibility of resuscitation. That's a fact, because no one else has the skills and time to support dfports. I urge all DFly fans to take a look at pkgmanager and help to make it even better than portupgrade! (Note that it is alpha-quality at the moment, so please be ready to help debug.)
