Re: pkg_tarup inclusion in pkg_create

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:55:48AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > 
 >   A better scheme would be to explicitly retain the last N compiled
 >   versions of each package (where N is configurable) regardless of their
 >   version numbers; that would fix all these problems, probably allow
 >   nuking pkg_tarup, and make undo-replace much more robust. However, it
 >   would require rearranging a lot of things (including e.g. the layout
 >   of the binary package tree) and is therefore not trivial.
 > 
 > While I don't object to a retain-recent-N notion, I don't see how that
 > leads to "no one needs pkg_tarup".  pkg_tarup is a useful tool for some
 > circumstances, and the default behavior being to retain packages going
 > forward is a long way from "no one will even need pkg_tarup".

True, but it does remove the principal need/use for it.

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David A. Holland
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