From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 30 21:46:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.199.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC60337B502; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 21:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W-rina.r-0.1-11.01.2000) with UUCP id NAA72422; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 13:46:21 +0900 (JST) Received: from silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W) with ESMTP/IPv4 id NAA27829; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 13:41:28 +0900 (JST) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 13:41:27 +0900 Message-ID: <14806.49271.166621.26482Z@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> From: Seigo Tanimura 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) In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT)" <14806.12932.647387.503859@guru.mired.org> References: <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <14798.4853.288090.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20000924100812.A23848@spawn.nectar.com> <200009281350.WAA23538@bunko> <20000928115555.D42464@spawn.nectar.com> <14805.63360.137164.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <14806.12932.647387.503859@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.0.3 (Notorious) SEMI/1.13.4 (Terai) FLIM/1.12.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Y=FEzaki?=) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Carrots MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.4 - "Terai") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [cc'ed to -ports] On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT), Mike Meyer 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 been built from a current port against an out-of-date system.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message