From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-08-06T20:49:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.0

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:10PM +0900, "Pe�a, Botp" wrote:
> Mauricio Fern�ndez [mailto:batsman.geo@yahoo.com] wrote:
> 
> >  * self-hosting: rpa-base installs and updates itself 
> 
> I'm just curious, but how is this (cool thing) done? =)

It is packaged as just another port; rpa-base is generic enough to handle
it without any problem. When bootstrapping, rpa-base will ask for some
configuration options ($prefix and some other paths) which will be reused
when you upgrade it.

As a side benefit, if you can install rpa-base on your system at all,
it is very likely that other ports will work, since you were already
using rpa-base when it installed itself ;-)

At the moment
  rpa install rpa-base
is not guaranteed to be atomic (although in many cases it can recover
OK), so in the worst case you would have to reinstall rpa-base; even in
such a case, all the ports/packages that were installed previously would
be recognized (that is, you wouldn't lose anything).

I know how to make self-upgrade atomic and will probably implement
it next week.  You can safely install it now, since it will be made
available through a normal 'self-update'.

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