Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 01:23:58 +0000 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster Message-ID: <20100807012358.GA38729@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/06/2010 15:03, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > While your in the mood for for taking portmaster suggestions, > > I am always in the mood for taking suggestions. :) > > > I think an > > option to backup all currently installed packages would be useful. > > for pkg in /var/db/pkg/* ; do > pkg_create -b $pkg > done > > > I > > have a python script that does this for me, but it would be easy > > enough > > to use sh as well. I do this because there have been too many times > > something has broken during a port upgrade run I don't think pkg_create preserves the config files user edited, which is the precious stuff, but it preserves a lot of useless stuff. The following python script by Cyrille Szymanski may be more useful: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkg_save.py It keeps the config files and the shared libraries. -- Michel TALON
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