On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:29:45PM +0100, fv wrote:
> >pkg_add -ui does what you want to do. (No, it doesn't go to ports, but
> >you shouldn't, especially not if you must ask how to do this.)
>
> I just would like to maintain a local up-to-date package database
> compiled from ports so i can dot periodicaly:
> PKG_PATH=/usr/ports/packages/sparc64/All/
> pkg_add -ui
>
> It's like a bulk build, but only for packages installed on my box.
> I don't why i should not do this as it's what is done on the openbsd
> main site but for all packages...
Hmm, you're on a sparc. That changes things somewhat, as - IIRC -
package updates are rather sporadic there.
As to solutions and/or interesting options:
- PKG_CACHE (pkg_add(8)) and FETCH_PACKAGES (bsd.port.mk(5))
- `make update' (ISTR that it was intended that this could be
done in /usr/ports, but that it didn't actually work yet)
- pkg_add via SSH
- pkg_add via NFS
For a simple scripted solution, something like
for i in `pkg_info | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*//'`; do ...; done
comes to mind. To do all hosts at once, use
#/bin/sh
TMP=`mktemp` || exit 1
( for i in $HOSTS; do
ssh $i pkg_info | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*//'`;
done ) | sort | uniq > $TMP
for i in `cat $TMP`; do
cd /usr/ports/*/$i && make package;
done
Or a similar version with better error handling, possibly using
something like tentakel or clusterit, and so on. (And remove the
subshell if you are certain it isn't necessary; it isn't on ksh, but I'm
not sure this extends to all Bourne shells.)
Joachim
