Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:39:22PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:10:05PM +0000, Sebastian Wasilewski wrote:
>>> Thank you for your reply. Is there an easy way to rebuild packages
>>> automatically ? Something like emerge for Gentoo, that would download a
>>> source of all required packages, rebuild them and install?
>>>
>>> I cannot imagine how much time I would have to spend to rebuild
>>> manually all packages I would like to install.
>> It's pkgsrc. It's not very time-consuming, you just have to type 'make
>> install' in the directory of the package you want (it'll take care of
>> dependancies). If you have several packages you can enter the 'cd
>> /path/do/pkgsrc-subdiur; make install' commands in a shell script.
>
>
> You may want to use pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_chk to automate that. Use pkg_chk
> -g to generate a list of all your installed packages, then remove them all
> (pkg_chk -r will remove the out-dated ones), and rebuild everything from
> the list with pkg_chk -a. See the pkg_chk(8) manpage for further options.
>
> There are several other mechanisms to "mass upgrade" pkgsrc. Search the
> pkgsrc-users or tech-pkg archives for more.
Thank you all (Manuel, Adam and Geert) for your answers and valuable
info. I will try to set it up.
Regards,
Sebastian
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