On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:49:00PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: > just in case port people haven't read this: > http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/ > > the important section: > > So I go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and when I run make install > clean, a package is downloaded instead of compiling it from > source; if a package isn't available, Ports goes ahead with the > compilation. I also tried out the new update option, but being > so close to the release, no updated packages were found. Just to > see what would happen, I substituted a 3.8 package directory for > a 3.9 installation. The result was that many of the packages > showed upgrades which were really downgrades to 3.8 packages. I > suspect that is a bug -- package upgrade tools should only > recognize higher versions as upgrades, and there should be some > effort to verify that the source directory contains viable and > up-to-date packages.
It is a nice review, but I don't see why it would be a bug for it to do what you tell it to.
