Re: up2date - something for NetBSD?

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

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> > How about adding to 'pkg_info -X' output an information with which
> > version of python/php/apache the package was built.
> 
> > In pkg_summary-utils I use the following notation:
> 
> >   ASSIGNMENTS=PYTHON_VERSION_REQD=23,PKG_APACHE=apache2
> >   PKGNAME=ap2-py23-python-3.3.1
> >   PKGPATH=www/ap2-python
> >   ...
> >   <other fields here>
> 
> > ASSIGNMENTS variable allows to easily implement source-based upgrades
> > without hacks aroung package's name.
> 
> If nobody objects, I'll try to make a patch for this feature.

Is the purpose of this for building a custom package that is not currently 
installed based on some pkg_summary database that contains "custom" 
packages (built not using defaults)?

If for upgrading from source something already installed, why not just use 
pkg_info -B? I am probably misunderstanding ...