From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 7 22:35:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com [171.71.163.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFFD37B684 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA14252; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f186ZPe39170; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200102080635.f186ZPe39170@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/19/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Harding Cc: kaltorak@quake.com.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? In-Reply-To: <20010208061814.5E6C5E6A17@netcom1.netcom.com> References: <3A8208E7.C6EE4C24@quake.com.au> <20010208061814.5E6C5E6A17@netcom1.netcom.com> Comments: In-reply-to Mike Harding message dated "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:18:14 -0800." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1931441307P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:35:25 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-1931441307P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Mike Harding wrote: > pkg_version -c | sh > > often works but you will probably want to spool it to a file. No. Don't do this. The manual page even says so. The output from "pkg_version -c" needs editing before it can be used. For starters, it's generated in alphabetical order by port name, rather than in any order that has anything to do with the actual dependencies. Also, it's been known on at least one occasion to blow away ports upgrade kits in such a way as to render a system unusable. One more time: Don't blindly run the output of "pkg_version -c". Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1931441307P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6gj4t2MoxcVugUsMRAkcbAKCVronRA3N3Q/Iw7EjfpteOcUHmHACg/SHa 0K4FGUXldvf1aKlHw1HGUWk= =ngN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1931441307P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message