Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 13:41:27 +0900 From: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: mwm@mired.org Cc: tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (Semi-)automatic update of installed ports (was: Re: pw_class in _pw_passwd is null if __hashpw() is not called in prior) Message-ID: <14806.49271.166621.26482Z@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT)" <14806.12932.647387.503859@guru.mired.org> References: <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <14798.4853.288090.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20000924100812.A23848@spawn.nectar.com> <200009281350.WAA23538@bunko> <20000928115555.D42464@spawn.nectar.com> <14805.63360.137164.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <14806.12932.647387.503859@guru.mired.org>
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[cc'ed to -ports] On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT), Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> said: Mike> Seigo Tanimura writes: >> Completely automatic update of installed ports is acutally difficult >> because we cannot get to know the language or required toolkit from >> the name of a binary. (eg emulator/wine and japanese/wine, timidity++-xaw >> and timidity++-tcltk) We can still detect and enumerate the ports that >> possibly installed old binaries, and decide which of the ports listed >> up to update. Mike> you. However, I believe you were talking about binaries that may have Mike> been built from a current port against an out-of-date system. Mike> Frankly, I'm not really interested in *detecting* such things. A tool Mike> that would 1) save tarballs of *all* installed ports; 2) uninstall Mike> them all; then 3) rebuild and install them all, with a report about Mike> failures would make me happy. How do you rebuild a port automatically if you want to hack the configure parameter or make variables of the port? -- Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <tanimura@FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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