Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:49:16 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade/Install in one command? Message-ID: <44r5m863pv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <i2wdf9ac37c1004211006o1005b699nd78410cf25c3e6d5@mail.gmail.com> (Atom Powers's message of "Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:06:23 -0700") References: <i2wdf9ac37c1004211006o1005b699nd78410cf25c3e6d5@mail.gmail.com>
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Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> writes: > I would like to make my configuration management system update and/or > install packages on FreeBSD. I've been avoiding that little thorn > because I haven't had very many hosts and updates have been fairly > rare recently; but no more. (cfengine2) > > Basically, I wish pkg_add would upgrade a package if it was already > installed; of that portupgrade would install a package if it was > missing. Neither seem to work. The '-N' option for portupgrade doesn't do what you want? > How do you manage packages on a large number of FreeBSD hosts? I have a small number, but I still follow the build server approach... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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