Re: A better way to upgrade packages

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 :-(

I usually run the pkg_chk -as (or pbulk) in a chroot to create packages 
and then install the packages in my real system.

cheers
  simon

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