On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> Hi there :)
> 
> I'm curious as to the "correct" way to keep packages current on my system.
> What I have been doing is about every month or two, I'll D/L the latest
> pkgsrc.tar.gz file from netbsd.org. Then I'll print out a copy of my
> pkg_info to see which packages I already had installed. Then I'll do a make
> deinstall from the top level of the pkgsrc directory, which'll recursively
> delete all of the installed files. I then delete the /usr/pkgsrc directory,
> and after archiving my http/htdocs directory, I'll delete the /usr/pkg
> directory as well. Then I gunzip/untar the pkgsrc files & proceed to
> reinstall everything I had as well as to look for newer versions of stuff I
> wanted but weren't working before.
> 
> I know that is excessive, so what _should_ I be doing to update pkgsrc?

You know you can sup pkgsrc? I do that, and run "make readmes"
occasionally. That make it easy to browse the tree (using lynx). I then
upgrade selectively.