On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:12:39PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Looking for resources/best practices with updating packages on my > NetBSD 3.1 box. I currently have downloaded the 6006-Q3 pkgsrc but may > want to update some of the packages to those in -current (kde 3.5.4 to > 3.5.5 for instance). Updating all packages is a tricky process, so having an oversimplified portupgrade is not necessarily the best solution. There are different options: - simple make update/replace (thought it's advisable to backup the old package, or use make package, in case it fails) - pkg_chk -g and pkg_chk -u - pkgmanager - pkg_comp's chroot - straight sandboxing with the scripts in pkgsrc/mk/bulk/ - my preferred method: pkgdepgraph (look at the EXAMPLES in the man page) --
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