Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:30:55 -0800 From: David Bushong <david@bushong.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>, kaltorak@quake.com.au Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? Message-ID: <20010208093055.C41838@bushong.net> In-Reply-To: <20010207224118.B40286@bushong.net>; from timus@floatingsheep.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:41:18PM -0800 References: <3A8208E7.C6EE4C24@quake.com.au> <20010208061814.5E6C5E6A17@netcom1.netcom.com> <20010207224118.B40286@bushong.net>
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An important note I forgot to mention: pkg_upgrade does not deal well with inconsistent installed packages. Make sure your packages are neat and tidy before you start using it. What does that mean? Mainly, make sure you don't have multiple installed versions of the same version of a piece of software. Having ncftp2 and ncftp3 both installed is fine, but having gtk-1.2.8, gtk-1.2.7, and gtk-1.2.6 installed is not a terribly good idea. I'll try to put a "cleanup" mode in one of these days, but it's rather nasty, since basically you have to: pkg_delete all of the versions (including the most recent), pkg_delete all of the programs that depended on older versions, reinstall/rebuild the most recent version, then rebuild the dependent packages. Whee. --David Bushong P.S. Screwed up my .muttrc earlier, so I'm "Timus" On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:41:18PM -0800, David Bushong wrote: > pkg_version -c, while better than nothing, has quite a few problems, most > significant of which is dependency ordering (making sure that a library that, > say, "xv" depends on gets upgraded before "xv" itself. > > I've been working on a decent upgrade script for the past few months, and now > seems as good a time as any to have people try it out. > > It's called "pkg_upgrade", and you can get it off of: > http://bushong.net/dave/sw/ > > Requirements: > > * At minimum, the INDEX file from the ports tree; better yet is an actual > ports tree (/usr/ports) > * The perl LWP modules (install /usr/ports/www/p5-libwww if you don't have it) > > Features: > > * will usage existing packages if they exist, and optionally build them if > they don't; great for an NFS mounted ports/packages directory > * will try to fetch packages before building > * handles dependencies correctly > * handles the "disappearing library file" problem (new version of lib package > doesn't provide lib that another installed package needs) > * other stuff i can't remember > > Usage is "pkg_upgrade -h" > > For a summary of what it _would_ do, were you to let it, try: > > pkg_upgrade -al > > Comments/feedback/code/replacement better package system for FreeBSD ;) > welcome. > > --David Bushong > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:18:14PM -0800, Mike Harding wrote: > > > > pkg_version -c | sh > > > > often works but you will probably want to spool it to a file. > > > > - Mike H. > > > > Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:48:07 +1100 > > From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> > > X-Accept-Language: en > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Precedence: bulk > > > > Hiyas, > > > > Just wanted to see if anyone has some good ways of updating installed > > ports... > > > > It would be good if you could update your installed ports as easily > > as the base system, like some sort of script that worked out all the > > dependencies and updated everything :) > > > > So anyone have a better way than slowly doing it by hand? > > > > Cheers! > > Kal. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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