[csw-maintainers] pkgutil version updates on the mirror roots? Make pkgutil package ARCH=all?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi James,

Am 02.10.2009 um 10:28 schrieb James Lee:
> On 02/10/09, 08:32:17, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote
> regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] pkgutil version updates on the mirror
> roots? Make pkgutil package ARCH=all?:
>
>> Independent of the ongoing discussion: the version on the mirror  
>> roots
>> is still outdated. Would some be so kind to put pkgutil 1.7 there?
>
>> The pkg-get version is also downrev btw. (4.1.3 vs. 4.2.1).
>
> The first thing any package tool should do is update itself.
>
> No, make that "must do" because other packages are only required to be
> updated with a contemporary version of pkg-get.  The first batch of
> updates before updating itself are done with an old version,  
> potentially
> too old, it need not be the previous version, it will be whatever is
> there and that can be very old.
>
> Using the update self first principle the initial package installer  
> need
> only update itself and might not need advanced perl nor wget.

True. And that is the reason why we should deliberately ship
outdated versions? I think it is good style to update the tools
on the frontpage from time to time. Not with every minor release
maybe, but a few times a year.


Best regards

   -- Dago