Subject: Re: Ruminations on pkg_chk...
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Tomasz Luchowski <tomasz@luchowski.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/31/2003 14:29:32
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:07:38PM +0000, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> 
> How feasible would it be for pkg_chk to have a flag which caused it to use
> something like pkg_comp to build all the new packages in a sandbox before
> deinstalling anything, and then only deinstall and upgrade when it knows
> it has successfully built enough binary packages that the system won't be
> left with any missing packages? I would consider that a very useful
> feature.
This would be *extremely* useful, I think it would be one of the best improvements
ever.

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