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Re: Compiling 6.0_RC1 fails



Thanks for your response,

> >Some methods for upgrading using pkgsrc builds are documented at
> >http://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/pkgsrc/pkg_comp_pkg_chk/
> >and
> >http://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_upgrade_packages/
Actually I did NOT mean to update the packages to the LATEST versions.
I had a pain story with FreeBSD ports.
But I only want to rebuild (from source) all installed packages QUARTERLY.
For example, the last pkgsrc tree is pkgsrc-2012Q2.
End of Q3 is not arrived.
There might be some latest versions for each individual package,
which are newer than ones in Q2.
But I do not consider that; I only concern with pkgsrc in each quarter.
``make update'' will do this but it is dangerous.
(If I am wrong, please correct me.)

> >You may also choose to use binary packages (if available for your
> >platform) and use pkgin (or nih).
I have only one machine to get updated, pkgin not required.
And AFAIK nih currently supports only binary updates.
So both should not be my choices.

> For today I am still using pkg_chk;
Does pkg_chk update all packages to the latest for each individual package?
Or it does update to ones given quarterly in pkgsrc tree?
(I opt the later.)

Thanks,

-- 
Pongthep Kulkrisada
 
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system,
but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
-- Dennis M. Ritchie


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