DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2004-06
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Re: a proposal for the packaging system
chopra wrote @ Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:08:46 -0400:
> 1. Rollback
>
> This isn't something to leave by the wayside. A lot of the admins
> I've spoken to are less than happy using ports for say, a critical
> Apache server. If they need to upgrade (security, etc.), and the new
> port is broken, they're toast. So they end up building everything
> from source without involving the ports system.
If they build packages, they can just install the old ones
(make package or portupgrade -p).
Also keeping around the checkout dates of the CVS and
testing on a test machine or test jail helps.
The VFS magic might ease that further.
Andy
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