Subject: Re: pkg/10835: Package upgrade procedure sucks
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/17/2000 01:16:54
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	For those who have the disk space and time to burn, how about
> 	an option to build everything in a chroot'ed environment,
> 	including making binary packages. The upgrade pass could then be
> 	a 'pkg_delete ...', followed by 'pkg_add ...'. Note - this would
> 	be an option...

Upgrading via binary packages is not an option, but mandatory.
Or do we hand out compiled versions of the OS as an option next?


 - Hubert

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