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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:29:56 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Upgrade/Install in one command?
Message-ID:  <201004211929.56759.bruce@cran.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <i2wdf9ac37c1004211006o1005b699nd78410cf25c3e6d5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <i2wdf9ac37c1004211006o1005b699nd78410cf25c3e6d5@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 21 April 2010 18:06:23 Atom Powers wrote:
> 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.
> 
> How do you manage packages on a large number of FreeBSD hosts?

I use portmaster, since it seems to mostly DTRT.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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