Subject: Re: Rebuilding all installed packages
To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/04/2000 15:12:21
	lintpksrc -i will list installed packages that are out of date
	(which might help the process :)
	its part of pkglint


		David/absolute

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Martin Husemann wrote:

> > That would be neat. I've used *_SPECIFIC_PKGS to update a whole bunch
> > at a time (see the top level Makefile), but the list of
> > category/package's had to be constructed by hand. I don't see an easy
> > way to get the category where the package actually lives out of the
> > package database, which you would need to construct the list automatically.
> 
> What I'm thinking about is a small perl script using "pkg_info -qf", "tsort" 
> and "make update".
> 
> I'll try that...
> 
> 
> Martin
>