Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:22:41 +0200 From: Uwe Grohnwaldt <Uwe@Grohnwaldt.eu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop Message-ID: <20070330022241.69d378a7@Winter> In-Reply-To: <20070329234634.c12b803b.coolzone@io.dk> References: <20070329234634.c12b803b.coolzone@io.dk>
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:46:34 +0200 Rico Secada <coolzone@io.dk> wrote: > Hi All. > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. > > Building everything from ports is ok, on a quick machine, but even on > a quick machine building KDE takes a LOT of time. Waiting until the > stable packages are ready takes about 2 - 3 weeks, and until then, a > lot of other stuff needs to be updated. > > Compared to Debian GNU/Linux's "apt-get update && apt-get dist > upgrade" command, OR OpenBSD's "pkg-add -u" > > >From OpenBSD's man page for "pkg_add": > > -u Update the given pkgname(s), and anything it depends > upon. If no pkgname is given, pkg_add will update all installed > packages. This relies on PKG_PATH to figure out the new package names. > > I really think it is time for FreeBSD to make it more easy to update > binary packages, like on OpenBSD. > > Best and kind regards, > Rico Hi Rico, some weeks ago, there was a thread on the ports-ml about a script called pkgupgrade. you can get it here: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/ i hope this is what you're looking for. i'm using ports so i don't know more about this script :) - Uwe
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