Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:47:08PM -0400, Mehul Sanghvi:
> On 4/14/05, john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 07:02:35PM +0200, Jaka Jejcic:
> > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:45:43AM -0400, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
> > > > 'allo,
> > > >
> > > >     I would like to update the packages that I have installed on my
> > > > system.  How do I do that with pkgsrc ?
> > > >
> > > >     Under Debian (which is what I am used to), I would do something
> > > > like 'apt-get upgrade'
> > > > and it would upgrade everything on my system.
> > >
> > > make update
> > 
> > afaik that will update everything installed _and_ install anything not
> > already installed.  check out pkg_chk in pkgtools.
> > 
> 
> 
> pkg_check -i has errors with /etc/mk.conf  which I dont seem to recall
> happening before.
> 
> apparently the following line has an error in it:
> 
>      .if  ${OPSYS} == "IRIX"
> 
> It needs an operator is what make complains.  The make I have in the path is
> /usr/bin/make and not GNU make which is in /usr/pkg/bin/gmake

you want netbsd's make or bmake, BSD make, on non-netbsd boxes. which would
have been installed with the pkgsrc bootstrap.

This (really this entire thread) should be on pkgsrc-bugs or tech-pkg, it
is not a sparc64 problem.

> Putting that aside though, pkg_chk will only give me a list of
> packages that need to be
> upgraded.  I would then have to do something like a 'make reinstall'
> for each one of those
> packages, yes ? 

see the -u and -r options.  i use pkgsrc on solaris, but have not tried
these options.  seems to work fine on netbsd.