Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:38:05 +0200 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A more tenuously package-related question Message-ID: <20071026203805.GD1482@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20071024014737.GE19536@lava.net> References: <20071014203736.GB2677@lava.net> <20071014160520.07ad521d@soralx> <20071014231917.GB29405@lava.net> <20071024014737.GE19536@lava.net>
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On Tue, 23.10.2007 at 15:47:40 -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > I got a request to summarize my results to the list, so here's a > quick write-up. Based on my preliminary testing last week, pkg_replace > looks like the right tool for package-based server maintenance. Interesting, as I'm facing the same problem. > One invaluable feature which was not immediately obvious from the > description and man page is that if you give it a list of binary > packages on the command line, it orders the updates correctly based on > the dependencies between those packages. Does it take the dependency graph from the already installed packages? > Thus updating my test server with the recently security-fixed > versions of the packages for png and ImageMagick was just a matter of > executing: > sudo pkg_replace png-1.2.22.tbz ImageMagick-nox11-6.3.5.10_1.tbz > in my package repository directory. Where is your package repository? Does pkg_replace work by simply setting PKG_PATH=ftp://foo/bar ? Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt.
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