Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:19:54 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: new tool: portupgrade Message-ID: <86k874g4c5.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, ports folks, I wrote a handy tool to upgrade already installed packages with the latest ports, called <portupgrade>. It's still far from finished (error handling, recursive upgrades, etc.), but it has achieved my primary goal. Grab the following tarball and use with care at your own risk: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~knu/misc/portupgrade.tar.gz Of course :P it's written in Ruby, so please install lang/ruby in advance and run "./install.rb" to install. I haven't yet written any docs, but a brief help is shown as below: Usage: portupgrade [-hcdfiu] [-o origin] [-m make_args] pkgname_glob [[-o origin] [-m make_args] pkgname_glob ...] -h, --help show this message -c, --cleanbuild clean before each port build -d, --clean clean after each port installation -f, --force force upgrade (even if equal or older) -i, --interactive turn on interactive mode -u, --uninstall uninstall before each port installation -o, --origin=ORIGIN specify the port to upgrade the following pkg with -m, --make-args=ARGS specify the arguments to pass to make(1) pkgname_glob is one of a full pkgname, a pkgname w/o version, or a glob. In a glob, you can use the wildcards *, ?, and [class]. For example, you can upgrade all GNOME packages by typing as follows: portupgrade 'gnome*' If you want to wipe out the installed files before installation, add -u to the command line. By default, it doesn't uninstall the old package and just overwrites it with the new one, keeping the package database consistent. In any case, portupgrade only builds and installs the specified port(s), but does not for the dependent/depending ports. It surely sounds bruteforce, but it works. :) So you will no longer bother with updating a fundamental library package, because you don't need to deinstall, rebuild and reinstall the dependent ports for nothing. Even if the shared library version is bumped, portupgrade will not kill the old version unless you specify -u on the command line. (And you can update the dependent ports any time you want later) Try: portupgrade freetype portupgrade 'qt-2*' portupgrade librep rep-gtk sawfish-gnome and so on. (As for the last case, I'm going to add -r and -R to recurse the dependency up and down to make it easier) One more thing, portupgrade uses "origin" info to find which port to upgrade a package with, so you'll have to specify an "-o <origin>" by hand for each package that had been installed before "origin" was introduced. Perhaps I'll write a tool to add the "origin" info for those packages that lack it, though. Thanks to the new attribute, portupgrade doesn't need to look up /usr/ports/INDEX at all for now, which often goes stale. Any comments, suggestions, patches would be appreciated. Have fun, and be careful. You are warned. :-> -- / /__ __ Akinori.org / MUSHA.org / ) ) ) ) / FreeBSD.org / Ruby-lang.org Akinori MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ iDaemons.org / and.or.jp "We're only at home when we're on the run, on the wing, on the fly" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86k874g4c5.wl>