Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:16:30 -0800
From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Oops... {upgrading, using a script and pkg_version}
Message-ID: <20070325211630.GC67757@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <44r6rde9uo.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan>
References: <20070323181909.GA38716@thought.org> <44r6rde9uo.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan>
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:22:39AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> writes:
>
> > Hi people,
> >
> > A day or three ago somebody posted a neat upgrade script
> > (or snippet of) using a shell for loop and pkg_version.
> > I was going to save, thought I saved it to ~/Mail/freebsd.
> > Can't find it. Anybody knw which post I'm thinking of?
> >
> > It was something like:
> >
> > for `pkgversion -xyz {foo}`; whatever;
> > do
> > portupgrade -abc;
> > done
> >
> > but something that was much more sharp. Several days ago I
> > saved the output of pkg_version -IL'<=' to /tmp/Up.sh, then
> > edited in portupgrade to each of the 20+ ports. As a result,
> > I'm almost entirely upgraded here. What I saw looked much more
> > efficient.
>
> I'm not really following what you're looking for; if you're trying to
> upgrade everything, doesn't "-a" get it?
I've got ~770 ports install--many|most depencencies. Doesn't
"-a" rebuilt *everything*? If not, I've been sadly
mis-understanding the man page.
On my fastest FBSD box I'd like to custom build all the ports
that need upgrading. Turn them into pakages for use on all my
other i686 servers.
>
> To avoid repackaging all the dependencies, I sometimes use something
> like:
> portupgrade -P `portversion -vL \=|cut -c 1-24`
This may prove infinitely helpful because I've watchmy upgrades
rebuild dependencies time after time. No clue how to prevent!!
hat's off,
gary
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Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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