Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.)