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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:00:56PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>=20
>    "make update" is dangerous, basically.  useful, but dangerous...
>   =20
> oops, meant to add this:
>=20
> one thing i do to avoid potential lossage is to use "pkg_tarup" (see
> pkgsrc/pkgtools) on all the packages i see related to the one that
> i wanted to upgrade, including dependancies, etc., of all the packages
> this package depends on.  that way i have a binary package of the
> things i need should i need to update stuff.
>=20
> another related trick is to pkg_tarup the packages that also depend
> on this packages depends, pkg_delete them, update, and pkg_add the
> other packages back - this should work in nearly all cases (ones that
> won't are when, eg, a shared library major is bumped.)

this is more or less what "make replace" does.  it's still experimental
so use with care.


regards,

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-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>                   --
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