Re: make update

[Justin Sherrill <justin%shiningsilence.com@localhost>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:08 PM, David Holland
<dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:53:12AM -0500, Tim Larson wrote:
>  > > ...which is why there's a minor cottage industry producing tools for
>  > > updating your pkgsrc packages.
>  >
>  > It would be terrific if the Pkgsrc Guide at least outlined the
>  > differences between the various tools in regards to performs
>  > updates.  Knowing which one to use is really not obvious.
>
> I doubt any one person knows enough to write that section, but we
> certainly ought to have it. Hrm...

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToPkgsrc/

It's not comprehensive, but it's worked pretty well as instructions
when people say "I need to update pkgsrc on DragonFly." Or, more
likely, "Argh I seem to have broken everything trying to upgrade."