Re: add PKG_INSTALL_TRY_UPGRADE -- please review

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:09:18AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
>> Since it's been three+ years I will restate the problem I was
>> originally trying to solve:
>> I am getting pretty sick of the following workflow:
>>
>> cd /usr/src/pkgsrc; cvs update
>> cd devel/tig
>> make install clean
>>
>> ... (an hour later)
>>
>> pkg_add: A different version of foo-dependency-1.0.1 is already
>> installed: foo-dependency-1.0.0
>> pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> ...
>> (grumble) pkg_add -u /usr/src/packages/All/foo-depdendency-1.0.1
>> make install
>>
>> repeat...
>>
>> </quote>
>>
>>
>> I was reading https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_upgrade_packages/
>> and things don't really seem much better/different than they were
>> three years ago.
>
>
> The method above wasn't recommended 3 years ago :) and I don't know
> anyone who's working on improving it. My recommendation (then and now)
> is to build packages in a sandbox and install the binary packages you
> get from that.
>
> The page you cite doesn't even mention pkgin or nih. We should update
> it...
>  Thomas


Which method?  Sorry I lost some context.