In message <Pine.NEB.4.61.0410070022150.251@irina.net.flo>, Florian Stoehr writ
es:

>
>Is there a perhaps simpler way to tell pkgsrc: 
>"bring-EVERYTHING-up-to-date-and-don't-ask-for-further-input" ?
>
>"make update world"-like?
>

There is, but it's a bit complex.  Here's a posting from Wolfgang S. 
Rupprecht on 31 May 2004:


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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:01:45 -0700
To: port-i386@NetBSD.org
From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang+gnus20040531T202330@dailyplanet.dontspam
.wsrcc.com>
Subject: Re: pkgsrc and already installed binary pkgs


> No, it's not great.  But there aren't great solutions here, unless 
> there's a thorough archive of many different versions of many packages.
> And it's even worse than I've just outlined, since you'll often find 
> that something doesn't rebuild properly.

I've been looking at how some of the other BSD's handle this, and
pkgsrc (especially when augmented with pkgdepgraph and pkg_chk) is way
above the competition.

I found that updating the pkgsrc tree to -current and then using
"lintpkgsrc -i" to find the out of date pkgs and updating with
pkgdepgraph is the least painful way to go.  Pain is relative though
and if something fundamental like png changes, expect 10-20 hours of
an unusable system with only the core non-pkgs utilities.

    set -e
    cd /usr/pkgsrc
    cvs -dAP
    lintpkgsrc -omr
    lintpkgsrc -i > pkgdepgraph.in
    pkgdepgraph -D pkgdepgraph.in > delete_order
    pkgdepgraph -R pkgdepgraph.in > rebuild.sh
    pkgdepgraph -F pkgdepgraph.in > fetch.sh
    sh fetch.sh && mv fetch.sh fetch.sh~
    pkg_delete `cat delete_order` && mv delete_order delete_order~
    sh rebuild.sh
    /bin/rm -f pkgdepgraph.in delete_order~ rebuild.sh fetch.sh~

Now on bad days, I may need to find what didn't rebuild, comment out
the broken build on rebuild.sh and rerun that by hand.  Still it beats 
rebuilding it all by hand.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb