Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:30:17 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? Message-ID: <3A8212C9.64C29F7E@cisco.com> References: <3A8208E7.C6EE4C24@quake.com.au>
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Well, the nature of the beast makes it a pretty difficult thing to perform automatically _and_ optimally; It's important to remember that there are different sequences of installing ports that can provide more/less functionality for the built packages. pkg_info provides the basic information you need to ferret out dependencies if you want to try a hand at writing some scripts to help automate this. You might consider some mechanism to provide a set of hints that modify the build order and port Makefile options for your preferences. A big-gun approach for supporting a lot of users is to use the live filesystem generated from 'make release' in a chroot environment to build up packages from scripts. Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@cisco.com Kal Torak wrote: > > Hiyas, > > Just wanted to see if anyone has some good ways of updating installed > ports... > > It would be good if you could update your installed ports as easily > as the base system, like some sort of script that worked out all the > dependencies and updated everything :) > > So anyone have a better way than slowly doing it by hand? > > Cheers! > Kal. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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