On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote:
> Shouldn't it suggest what packages to update because of a newer version?
pkg_add -u doesn't have a notion of `newer version'. It stops at `this is
the package whose name most closely matches your existing package'.
It matches the
> -Original Message-
> From: Marc Espie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:31 AM
> To: Will H. Backman
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: package installation script hints
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Will H. Backman wr
> -Original Message-
> From: Marc Espie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:39 AM
> To: Will H. Backman
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: package installation script hints
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:28:04AM -0400, Will H. Backma
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:28:04AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote:
> >
> > > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people?
> >
> > It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell
> me...
>
> Aug 24 snapshot, trying just "pkg_add -u" causes it to say updating
> package -> package fo
> > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people?
>
> It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell
me...
Aug 24 snapshot, trying just "pkg_add -u" causes it to say updating
package -> package for every single one of my installed packages, and it
then asks me to run pkg_add -r f
Paul de Weerd wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:06:29AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
| > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people?
|
| It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell me...
I haven't used it very much yet, but so far everything works great for
me. But this is ju
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:06:29AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
| > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people?
|
| It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell me...
I haven't used it very much yet, but so far everything works great for
me. But this is just basic pkg_add -u/pkg_
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:08:53AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote:
> 1 - If the new host happens to have one of those packages installed,
> perhaps because I stopped the installation of packages the first time,
> then pkg_add will stop when it hits an already installed package. I can
> fix that with
> -Original Message-
> From: Marc Espie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 6:43 PM
> To: Will H. Backman
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: package installation script hints
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Will H. Backma
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote:
> 1. Packages get installed in a sub-optimal order. Quite often one
> package on the list will have already been installed as a dependency. I
> think my script downloads the redundant package before deciding that it
> was already in
I'm looking for hints and criticism for a package installation script.
I do a full install, and then install a set of packages.
To get the list of packages to install on another machine, I just
grabbed a directory listing from /var/db/pkg, put them in my script, and
then run that script on a fresh
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