In article <5e20544e3580a75759c3858f31894dc9.authentica...@ultimatedns.net>,
bsd-li...@lcommand.com writes:
> I haven't upgraded my tree(s) for awhile. My last attempt to rebuild
>after an updating
>src && ports, resulted in nearly installing the entire ports tree, which
>is why I've
>waited so long. Try as I might, I've had great difficulty finding
>something that will
>_only_ upgrade what I already have installed, _and_ respect the
>"options" used during the
>original make && make install, or those options expressed in make.conf.
Having just gone through this in two different environments, I can
very very strongly recommend doing the following. It's not the "easy
button" of the TV commercials, but it will make things much much
easier in the future.
1) Switch your system to pkgng if you haven't already. Unfortunately,
this will not result in the right ports being marked as "automatic",
so you'll need to do a bit of post-conversion surgery:
# pkg set -A 1 -g '*'
# pkg query -e '%#r==0' '%n-%v: %c'
Then look through the output of "pkg query" to identify the leaf
packages that are the ones you actually wanted explicitly to have
installed. For each one of those:
# pkg set -A 0 packagename
Create a list of your desired packages:
# pkg query -e '%a==0' '%o' > pkg-list
Clean up the unnecessary local packages:
# pkg autoremove
(You can iterate the last three steps, aborting "pkg autoremove" each
time but the last, until it doesn't offer to remove anything you care
about keeping.)
Repeat this process for each machine, and merge the resulting pkg-list
files using sort -u. Make sure that pkgng is enabled for ports in
/etc/make.conf.
2) Install and set up poudriere. Copy /var/db/ports, /etc/src.conf,
and /etc/make.conf to /usr/local/etc (possibly with local variations
as described in poudriere(8) under the heading "CUSTOMISATION").
3) Run "poudriere options" for each jail and setname (if you created
any sets following the customization section referenced above),
providing the package list you constructed, to make sure that any new
options are configured as you require them.
4) Run "poudriere bulk" for each jail and setname (if you created
any), providing the package list as before. This will create a pkgng
repository for each jail and set, which you can serve by HTTP (using
your choice of Web server) or SSH (with pkgng 1.1+), and all of these
packages will have been built in a clean jail and (if their
dependencies were specified correctly) will have no library
inconsistencies.
5) Configure your client machines to reference the appropriate
repository created in step (4).
6) Run "pkg upgrade -fy" on all of your machines, and resolve any
inconsistencies by "pkg remove"-ing the offending local package.
That seems like a lot of work, and it is, but having done it, there's
a huge benefit the next time you want to do update your systems:
a) Update the ports tree (how you do this depends on how you set up
poudriere -- see the man page).
b) Repeat step (3).
c) Repeat step (4).
d) Check the ports UPDATING file for any warnings about packages you
are about to install. If it tells you to do "pkg install -fR
somepackage", then do those.
e) Run "pkg upgrade -y" to upgrade any remaining packages.
Even for just three machines it was worth going through this process
-- and worth unifying all of my package sets and options. Since I now
do one build instead of three, I'm no longer so ocncerned about
minimizing dependencies; it's no big deal if some X libraries get
installed on my server.
-GAWollman
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