Re: 9.0 is getting old...

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

>> [...] -- it would presumably require updating all packages at
>> once, but maybe that's expected practice anyway in quarterly
>> releases so not an issue.
>
> I was under the impression that it's acceptable practice to rely
> on "pkgin fug" mostly doing the right thing.  Instead removing
> every package, cleaning out the pkgin cache and reinstall all
> required package for each branch is quite a bit more cumbersome.

When the package in a set has the same version but is different, then
pkgin calls it 'refreshed'.   So I think it does what it needs to do.
Counterexample needed for a valid complaint!  (not saying it's bug free
just that I don't want to talk about theoretical bugs)