Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:54:51 +0000 From: Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Gordon Broom <gjbroom@alumni.uwaterloo.ca>, ajs@labs.mot.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading ports and such Message-ID: <20030227135451.GA31745@kierun.org> In-Reply-To: <200302270829.36028.bts@babbleon.org> References: <58951.1046312634@selfstyled.dyndns.org> <200302270829.36028.bts@babbleon.org>
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Quoth Brian T. Schellenberger on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:29:36 -0500
> FWIW, I have found only one way to update my ports / packages and get
> things to work reasonably realiably: I completely wipe out my old
> system and replace it when I choose to upgrade at all.
That is a lot of over kill. I use the following little script:
#!/bin/sh
# portupgrade script.
day=`date +%d`
month=`date +%b`
year=`date +%Y`
/usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/ports/GRIDLOCK.cvsup
/usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -F
/usr/bin/tar zvcf /var/db/$year-$month-$day-pkg.tgz /var/db/pkg
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -v -x mailman -ra -l
/usr/ports/LATEST.update
/usr/bin/grep -v '^\-' /usr/ports/LATEST.update
Where /usr/ports/GRIDLOCK.cvsup is:
*default tag=.
*default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
*default prefix=/usr
*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
ports-all
And it upgrades everything for me. No trouble at all.
> I realize that "portupgrade" does wonderful things for a number of
> people and it may work well for those of you who update your whole
> systems weekly or so, but I have had very little luck with it myself.
Try the above scripts.
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