Re: Running a sustainable source code NetBSD system

[Zafer AydoÄan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost>]

2010/1/13 Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl%beer.org@localhost>:
>
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Gary Duzan wrote:
>
>> In Message 
>> <1e3f6d361001130616i5482ab7ag69d3bb90196578c9%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
>> ÂDavid Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>wrote:
>>
>> =>Thinking further, it might be nice to have an option to pkg_chk to mark
>> =>installed packages as out of date for pkg_rolling_replace to field -
>> what do
>> =>people think?
>>
>> ÂAbsolutely. I also wouldn't mind an option to pkg_rolling-replace
>> to have it build new packages as well.
>
> I just started using pkgin and so far, that's a nice piece of work. ÂOrders
> of magnitude easier than pkg_comp and pkg_chk to deal with; though I realize
> it's only binary packages; and I haven't needed to do a 'pkgin update'
> yet... Â But this is definitely the right direction... Âpkg_{comp,chk} are
> great tools for pkgsrc developers; but that's it...
>
> For years, I've complained how unnecessarily difficult it was to _use_
> NetBSD because of pkgsrc... Â Hazzah for pkgin!
>
>


I like pkg_rolling-replace very much.
Once a month I check via pkg_chk -q -u if there are any updates and
run rolling-replace if necessary.
It works very well.

Zafer.