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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:23:52 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Christian Carstensen <cc@devcon.net>
Cc: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: updating packages automatically...
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On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:11:32AM +0200, Christian Carstensen wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
> >    Aah!  No!  I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane
> > for about two weeks.
> > 
> >    Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially
> > for those using apache from ports!
> 
> that's right. i thought about having some kind of exclude list for ports
> that shall never be upgraded automatically. anyway, the script will just
> generate a shell script output. it should not replace packages without
> manual intervention.

If you're interested, I've got patches for sysutils/pkg_version
that support a '-c' flag (for 'commands') that show you the commands 
you should run to update any out of date ports.  I cron this and mail
the output out once a week.

You could have it automatically create and execute a shell script if
you wanted.  Sample output from one of my boxes is:

    #
    #  ORBit
    #  needs updating (index has 0.4.93)
    #
    cd /usr/ports/devel/ORBit
    make clean all
    pkg_delete -f ORBit-0.4.3
    make install

    #
    #  docbook-xml
    #  needs updating (index has 3.1.5)
    #
    cd /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xml
    make clean all
    pkg_delete -f docbook-xml-3.1.4
    make install

    #
    #  fetchmail
    #  needs updating (index has 5.0.8)
    #
    cd /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail
    make clean all
    pkg_delete -f fetchmail-5.0.3
    make install

    #
    #  less
    #  needs updating (index has 340)
    #
    cd /usr/ports/misc/less
    make clean all
    pkg_delete -f less-337
    make install

    [...]

I sent these to the maintainer/author a while back, but they were never
integrated.

N
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