Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 03:29:20 -0400 From: Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Can I automatically upgrade a large number of ports? Message-ID: <19990730032920.A17314@semiotek.com>
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I first posted this to freebsd-questions, but nobody there seemed to
know the answer.
I just supped my ports collection again, and once again used pkg_version
to extract a list of all the ports that had changed, selected some, and
manually upgraded them by doing a pkg_delete and a make install.
Boy this is tedious.
I would like to issue a single command that goes off and grabs the
newest ports, finds out what I have installed that is now obsolete,
and upgrades just those packages. If it can't do every single package
well ok--if it can do the majority that would be great (I know
pkg_version doesn't accurately assess everything, but it gets most
of it right).
I tried writing a script to do this, based on pkg_version, but it
turned out to be dangerous and difficult:
-- I don't want to pkg_delete until I know that I've got the
new version all compiled and configured; otherwise I might
wipe out something important. pkg_delete complains anyway if
I try to do this
-- If I don't run pkg_delete then I get multiple versions of the
same port installed, one over the other. The package database
gets all messed up, and worse yet, pkg_version stops reporting
useful information about that port (too many versions installed).
-- It's tricky relating a package name back to a directory in
/usr/ports. Are they guaranteed to be unique? Can I do a
cd /usr/ports/*/rsync and be sure there will never, ever
be a /usr/ports/games/rsync as well as the one I want?
Anyway, it seems like I should be able to do:
cd /usr/ports
cvsup supfile
make install_upgrades
and have it all taken care of. Is there a way?
Justin
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