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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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