Date: 04 Aug 2002 17:25:54 +0200 From: Ketanu <ketanu@wanadoo.fr> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading by ports or packages [pkg_fetch][portupgrade] Message-ID: <878z3mzlvh.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200208040839.50338.scott@bsdprophet.org> References: <878z3o1y7b.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> <200208040839.50338.scott@bsdprophet.org>
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Scott Corey <scott@bsdprophet.org> writes: > try man portupgrade. > > On Friday 02 August 2002 09:19 pm, Ketanu wrote: > > I was told by a friend that `portupgrade' could be configured so that it > > automatically choose between packages and ports when upgrading, e.g. i want > > to say it `upgrade general software with packages when available' and > > `upgrade some specific software with ports and a specific configuration' so > > that i can have some software (such as the ion window manager) home compiled > > with some patches that are not in package distribution, or some (such as > > pari-gp and scilab which are scientific calculous) home compiled to take > > advantage of some host-specific capabilities. [...] Well, i have read it many times, and what i understand is that it does not what i said, also i will try to say it better. I was told it was possible to tell portupgrade : i want you to build home-made packages from sources when upgrading XFree, for ocaml, for scilab and pari, i want you to use premade packages when upgrading everything else. Now i say do the upgrade (with recursion options, to preserve coherence between versions of installed software) and portupgrade will obey. A simplistic approach is to have a script with portupgrade ocaml XFree86 pari portupgrade -a -PP but it does not preserve coherence between software versions while upgrading, and it is not possible to do a binary fetch before the upgrade (it is possible but unwanted packages for ocaml XFree86 and pari will be downloaded). -- Ketanu <ketanu@wanadoo.fr> - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x20D90C12 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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