Re: why 100 packages are evil

From: Matthew Seaman <matthew_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:52:32 +0100
On 23/04/2016 17:19, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> In message <alpine.OSX.2.00.1604222009300.15755_at_minnie.bitsea.ca>, Lyndon Neren
> berg writes:
> 
>> With freebsd-update, an announcement comes out that says 'update'!.  So we 
>> do.  Move from 10.2-p11 to 10.2-p12.  There is a very clear track record 
>> of why and how this happened.
> 
> Is freebsd-update going away as result of the new packaging ?

Yes.  It will be replaced by 'pkg upgrade' -- as far as I know, that's
the plan for 11.0-RELEASE.  I have no idea if anyone intends to run
maintain freebsd-update in parallel for a transition period, but
freebsd-update will ultimately be superceded.

	Cheers,

	Matthew





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