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From: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com>
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To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways?
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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.
> 
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