Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:04:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: Christian Carstensen <cc@devcon.net> Cc: mns@metathink.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: updating packages automatically, etc.pp. Message-ID: <XFMail.990929180456.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909282242380.8593-100000@pauling.research.devcon.net>
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On 28-Sep-99 Christian Carstensen wrote:
>
> so far, so good,
>
> first of all, thanks for giving me this much input on my idea.
> i've had a look at the pkg_version tool, which, with Nik Clayton's
> patch, does more or less what i've been thinking of, when i decided
> to post the initial message to this list. as Mark Shepard
> discussed in detail, there are a lot of useful features,
> pkg_version is still lacking. (mark, special thanks to you for
> taking down these useful notes!) i'm interested in implementing
> at least some of this functionality using perl, if enough of you
> regard this as a useful tool for system admin. otherwise, i'll
> put it on the stack of things to do, when nothing else has to
> done ;) how do you think about it?
Here's a simple little Bourne shell script I threw together the other
day to automatically upgrade installed ports. I've already used it
myself, and it works just as expected.
The script relies on you having an up-to-date INDEX file; do "make
index" first to be sure (which reminds me, why is the INDEX file
always out of sync after a cvsup?). It only tries to upgrade ports
which have a single version installed, basically because I haven't
gotten around yet to handling the parsing of pkg_version's output
where more than one version of a port is installed. :-) The script
checks to make sure that the new version builds successfully and is
ready to be installed before deleting the old version (the reason for
all those "&&" thingies). It should probably also check to see
whether a port is interactive or not, but that's another thing I have
yet to do. :-) Ignore the line wrap, by the way:
#!/bin/sh
for old_pkg in `pkg_version -v | grep '<' | awk '{print $1}'`
do
new_pkg=`echo $old_pkg | sed 's/-[0-9].*$//'`
echo Upgrading $old_pkg
cd /usr/ports/*/${new_pkg} && make && pkg_delete -f $old_pkg
&& make install clean
done
--
Conrad Sabatier
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