Re: Muddled wrt pkgsrc

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 10 Mar 2014 at 15:43, Bob Bernstein wrote:

> After a long delay I have finally upgraded my netbsd machine 
> to 6.1.3, and refreshed the /usr/pkgsrc tree to 
> pkgsrc-2013Q4. I then charged off to build claws-mail and 
> ran into a bit of pesky business that has always baffled me.
> 
> At every turn, as claws-mail ground through its build, I was 
> confronted with the need to pkg-delete older versions of its 
> many, many dependencies.
> 
> Is there a way to tell pkgsrc simply to 'pkg_delete -f' all 
> these older versions of dependencies as and when the build 
> wishes to replace them with uptodate versions?
> 

I run "pkg_chk -uan" to get an idea what packages have
moved and then for those "pkg_delete -r <pkglist>" or
"pkg_delete -rR <pkglist>.

I've a script 'update-pkgsrc.sh' from Greg Troxel that
might be useful. 

I mostly build in a diy chroot. My method works well 
enough with almost 2000 packages. I then install to 
target pcs from the built packages using 'pkg_chk -buak'
which can have a few failures sometimes requirng build 
from source on the target. Some of the failures are due 
to my pcs having some uid/gid conflicts.


David

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