On 10 Mar 2014 at 15:43, Bob Bernstein wrote: > After a long delay I have finally upgraded my netbsd machine > to 6.1.3, and refreshed the /usr/pkgsrc tree to > pkgsrc-2013Q4. I then charged off to build claws-mail and > ran into a bit of pesky business that has always baffled me. > > At every turn, as claws-mail ground through its build, I was > confronted with the need to pkg-delete older versions of its > many, many dependencies. > > Is there a way to tell pkgsrc simply to 'pkg_delete -f' all > these older versions of dependencies as and when the build > wishes to replace them with uptodate versions? >
I run "pkg_chk -uan" to get an idea what packages have moved and then for those "pkg_delete -r <pkglist>" or "pkg_delete -rR <pkglist>. I've a script 'update-pkgsrc.sh' from Greg Troxel that might be useful. I mostly build in a diy chroot. My method works well enough with almost 2000 packages. I then install to target pcs from the built packages using 'pkg_chk -buak' which can have a few failures sometimes requirng build from source on the target. Some of the failures are due to my pcs having some uid/gid conflicts. David > > Muddled in Rhode Island > > > -- > IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual > addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is > confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive > persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational > metaphysical beliefs. >
