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From: David Coder <dacoder@dcoder.com>
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To: Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com>
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Subject: Re: automatic package upgrading
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Justin Wells wrote:

> 
> 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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To my knowledge, "make world" describes all & only those packages that are
new.  See

http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html

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