From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 00:22:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FAE16A411 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:22:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@grohnwaldt.eu) Received: from p15150876.pureserver.info (grohnwaldt.de [82.165.31.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0466513C483 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:22:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@grohnwaldt.eu) Received: (qmail 6858 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2007 02:22:48 +0200 Received: from vpn017014.uni-rostock.de (HELO Winter) (139.30.17.14) by muhkuhsaft.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 30 Mar 2007 02:22:47 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:22:41 +0200 From: Uwe Grohnwaldt To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070330022241.69d378a7@Winter> In-Reply-To: <20070329234634.c12b803b.coolzone@io.dk> References: <20070329234634.c12b803b.coolzone@io.dk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:22:50 -0000 On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:46:34 +0200 Rico Secada 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