Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

[Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:15:12PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > CVSROOT:	/cvs
> > Module name:	src
> > Changes by:	brian@cvs.openbsd.org	2001/05/21 10:47:51
> > 
> > Modified files:
> > 	usr.sbin/pkg_install: Makefile 
> > Added files:
> > 	usr.sbin/pkg_install/version: Makefile pkg_version.1 
> > 	                              pkg_version.pl 
> > 
> > Log message:
> > Add pkg_version from FreeBSD (modulo the PORT_REVISION stuff)
> 
> I'd like to add the following to /etc/weekly.  Does anyone have any 
> objections ?  The down-side is that people who install the ports 
> collection but don't update their system very frequently suffer the 
> wasted processing time.  An alternative might be to maintain a touch 
> file (/var/db/pkg_version_check ?) and compare it's time against 
> /usr/ports/INDEX.  If the touch file is older (or doesn't exist), 
> touch it and do the check.
> 
> Comments ?

I have a large objection. 

What you're doing is completely wrong.

You didn't even check with me before importing this script.

Well, FreeBSD's pkg_version does not work correctly for us. It does not
know how our versioning schemes work. And it duplicates code that's already
in the new pkg tool.