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Date:      Sun, 01 Oct 2000 13:41:27 +0900
From:      Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        mwm@mired.org
Cc:        tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   (Semi-)automatic update of installed ports (was: Re: pw_class in _pw_passwd is null if __hashpw() is not called in prior)
Message-ID:  <14806.49271.166621.26482Z@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT)" <14806.12932.647387.503859@guru.mired.org>
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT),
  Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> said:

Mike> Seigo Tanimura writes:
>> Completely automatic update of installed ports is acutally difficult
>> because we cannot get to know the language or required toolkit from
>> the name of a binary. (eg emulator/wine and japanese/wine, timidity++-xaw
>> and timidity++-tcltk) We can still detect and enumerate the ports that
>> possibly installed old binaries, and decide which of the ports listed
>> up to update.

Mike> you. However, I believe you were talking about binaries that may have
Mike> been built from a current port against an out-of-date system.

Mike> Frankly, I'm not really interested in *detecting* such things. A tool
Mike> that would 1) save tarballs of *all* installed ports; 2) uninstall
Mike> them all; then 3) rebuild and install them all, with a report about
Mike> failures would make me happy.

How do you rebuild a port automatically if you want to hack the
configure parameter or make variables of the port?

-- 
Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <tanimura@FreeBSD.org>


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