svn commit: r365566 - head/Tools/scripts

[Bryan Drewery]

On 8/21/2014 12:03 PM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 21.08.2014 um 18:28 schrieb Bryan Drewery:
>> On 8/21/2014 10:56 AM, Matthias Andree wrote:
>>> Author: mandree
>>> Date: Thu Aug 21 15:56:14 2014
>>> New Revision: 365566
>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/365566
>>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r365566/
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Add a BerkeleyDB upgrade helper script in preparation of 4...4.7 removal.
>>
>> Thanks for making things simpler.
>>
>> <joke> We now have a script to run another script that was made to make
>> using ports simpler.
> 
> The point is to abstract away the chaotic (miniscule input difference,
> major difference in result) differences along the various dimensions of
> port upgrading tools and local database management tools.
> 
> I don't think a textual description for UPDATING would have been much
> shorter and the whole migration will look scary enough to users with the
> around-ten-step upgrade...
> 
> And people WILL have multiple db4* versions on their typical system
> unless they manipulated /etc/make.conf.
> 

No no, I agree with it. It's nice for the users. We have other such
scripts too such as the perl-after-upgrade was IIRC.

Actually I find it appalling we need to use a tool to use ports at all
and wish it was all self-contained with 1 official interface.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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