On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Siju George wrote: > HI, > > Can somebody update > > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/handbook-pkgsrc-sourcetree-using/ > > to show that they can replace package one by one using > > http://pkgsrc.se/pkgtools/pkg_rolling-replace > > The problem with > > # pkg_chk -g # make initial list of installed packages > # pkg_chk -r # remove all packages that are not up to date and > packages that depend on them > # pkg_chk -a # install all missing packages (use binary packages, > this is the default > # pkg_chk -as # install all missing packages (build from source) > > is that the packages are deleted at once and one has to wait a long > time ( according to the order of updates ) to get some packages > updated. > > For example I run samba and once the samba package is removed by -r > the users have to wait a long time till it is updated :-( > > thanks > > Siju
Should be worth mentionning pkgtools/pkgin too now. -- [email protected]
