From: CT <demerzel@...>
Date: 2004-08-09T16:14:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.0

Looks good so far. It bootstrapped fine, but I'm not able to download
ports. Is there any way to tell rpa to connect through an http proxy?

Keep up the good work!
- CT

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:49:57 +0900, Mauricio Fern�ndez
<batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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