Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:39:32 +0100 From: Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-freebsd@biaix.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com> Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?) Message-ID: <20070208233932.GC90289@grummit.biaix.org> In-Reply-To: <20070207220243.GA3644@roadrunner.q.local> References: <8b4c81f0702061514r5a753e48yea0ce9b937236fc3@mail.gmail.com> <17865.6041.605201.772296@bhuda.mired.org> <20070207020205.GC62321@grummit.biaix.org> <20070206180540.Q90547@demos.bsdclusters.com> <20070207220243.GA3644@roadrunner.q.local>
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[moved to ports@ with notice on hackers@] * Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> [20070208 22:37]: > Kip Macy wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote: > > > > >I know what I'd like: a utility in the base system for binary upgrading > > >of packages. More flexible logic in how the '-r' option is handled would > > >be nice (being able to fetch all packages from All/ even if you are > > >on RELENG). Doesn't > > > > > >freebsd-update fetch install && pkg_upgrade -a > > > > > >look nice for keeping up to date? The obvious hairy details must be > > >harder than it seems, I'm sure others have considered it (and would have > > >done it) before. > > > > portupgrade -aPP > > Requires a fully populated /usr/ports together with an up-to-date INDEX. > > Not exactly what we are looking for here. I hacked together an ugly > shell script, that will use pkg_version (it can grab the INDEX from the > pkg-site via ftp) and gives you the feature to pkg_delete/pkg_add > selected packages. Sounds nice, no matter how ugly it looks. Care to share it? > It is missing a lot of other stuff, though. Put it up on the wiki and see what happens... qvb -- pica
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