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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:41:18 -0800
From: Timus <timus@floatingsheep.com>
To: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: kaltorak@quake.com.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways?
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pkg_version -c, while better than nothing, has quite a few problems, most
significant of which is dependency ordering (making sure that a library that,
say, "xv" depends on gets upgraded before "xv" itself.

I've been working on a decent upgrade script for the past few months, and now
seems as good a time as any to have people try it out.  

It's called "pkg_upgrade", and you can get it off of:
http://bushong.net/dave/sw/

Requirements:

* At minimum, the INDEX file from the ports tree; better yet is an actual
  ports tree (/usr/ports)
* The perl LWP modules (install /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww if you don't have it)

Features:

* will usage existing packages if they exist, and optionally build them if
  they don't; great for an NFS mounted ports/packages directory
* will try to fetch packages before building
* handles dependencies correctly
* handles the "disappearing library file" problem (new version of lib package
  doesn't provide lib that another installed package needs)
* other stuff i can't remember

Usage is "pkg_upgrade -h"

For a summary of what it _would_ do, were you to let it, try:

pkg_upgrade -al

Comments/feedback/code/replacement better package system for FreeBSD ;)
welcome.

--David Bushong

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:18:14PM -0800, Mike Harding wrote:
> 
> pkg_version -c | sh
> 
> often works but you will probably want to spool it to a file.
> 
> - Mike H.
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>    Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:48:07 +1100
>    From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
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>    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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