On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
>> And finally, the system assumed that the build of the new package would
>> succeed, which it did not. In fact, there seems to be a bug at the
>> moment, which causes a build of mysql 4.0.20 to fail. So I started with
>> an update of the pth package, which ended up in a failed build of mysql,
>> leaving me without mysql on my running system :( I had to re-install
>> mysql from a pre-built package from an FTP server.
>
> Did you ever get the mysql server to build? If not you may want to report
> your problem to tech-pkg.
>
>> The pkgsrc guide recommends a user to type "make update" to update
>> packages. I think the guide should be more conservative, and teach a
>> user to be more cautious, and first type just "make", which will build
>> new packages, but not remove anything. And if all the builds and their
>> dependencies succeed, then proceed with a "make update".
>
> What was the URL or location of that? I could probably add a note.
>
>> And anyway, why does "make update" FIRST remove the old package? Would
>> it not make sense to first build the new package(s), and if all the
>> builds succeed, then to proceed with deleting the old packages and
>> replacing them with new ones? That makes for a very small package
>> unavailability window.
>
> It needs to update the dependencies before it can rebuild any software
> using them. It can't easily keep around the previous installed software if
> any libraries and other dependencies are changed.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>
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A bit off topic:

Hm, I use to do a "make update" on perl and pth which will cause 75% of 
all packages being rebuilt.

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?

Florian