Re: Real life use of pkgsrc from a happy user

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:

> On Thu, September 10, 2009 3:40 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> > Who uses pkgin? What could it do better? Or what is it missing?
> >
> > (Missing for me is package repo built using X11_TYPE=modular. Also I have
> > a patched pkgin that provides debugging/dry-run feature, better error
> > reporting, and more verbosity.)
> 
> Will the dry-run feature check for existence of packages for download? 
> That would fix my one worry about missing a given package and messing up
> what could otherwise have been a really easy upgrade process.

The way I am using dry-run is that it does actually download, just no 
package deinstalls and installs. Maybe I could do something like -dd and 
if one then download still, if more then don't download.

Also pkgin, as far as I see, doesn't have any problem with messing up an 
upgrade, as it won't attempt to deinstall anything if it doesn't have the 
needed replacement packages downloaded first.