Jukka Marin wrote:

> So, HOW do I update installed packages without first removing all packages
> and then installing everything from scratch.

I wrote a script for that:

http://tecneeq.dyndns.org/~karsten/scripte/smartupdate

It creates a list of packages to update with pkg_tarup. Then it creates a 
list with packages to delete and rebuild. If nothing failed the 
backup-packages are deleted.

If something goes wrong you install the backed up packages.

I use it to jump from pkgsrc-snapshot to pkagsrc-snapshot and it works 
well enough.

Karsten

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