Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 04:41:54 -0400 From: Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: automatic package upgrading Message-ID: <19990729044154.A16711@semiotek.com>
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I have a system with a large number of ports installed. Now I have
done a cvsup on /usr/ports, and got a fresher version of the collection
available there.
How do I upgrade all the ports I've already installed to the newer
versions now available in /usr/ports?
I can use the /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_version tool to find out which
packages are potential candidates for upgrade, but I don't know how
to issue a command to actually upgrade them. I've looked all through
the documentation and found nothing--maybe I missed it, if so please
tell me where to look.
I did try writing a little shell script to parse the output of
pkg_version and run "pkg_add -r $packageName" for all the packages
which need to be upgraded. However this is no good for two reasons:
-- after the pkg_add the system thinks there are two versions
of rsync installed, and pkg_version can't deal with that.
It no longer reports useful information about that package.
-- i can't automatically run pkg_delete because it complains,
for some packages, that other things depend on what I'm
deleting.
-- this installs binaries by downloading them from the FTP
site, whereas I would prefer to compile it myself in /ports.
this is not such a big deal, though, and I would accept a
viable pkg_add solution.
So how do I go about upgrading all my installed packages to the newer
versions?
It seems to me that there should be a
cd /usr/ports
make upgrade
to do this, which would first run "make update", and then compile
and properly install just those ports which have already been
installed, and for which there are newer versions available. It
should properly deal with fixing up the version numbers in the
database of installed packages.
Is this possible? Is there anything close to it?
Justin
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