Re: How to upgrade?

[Louis Guillaume <lguillaume%berklee.edu@localhost>]

Daniel Vergien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use pkgsrc-2008Q1 on Solaris 10 and now I want to upgrade it 
> to 2008Q2. Which is the official way to do this? I couldn't not find 
> something about it in the docs.
>
> Greetings
>
> Daniel


I've been doing a combination of what Greg Troxel suggested in my 
environment. First, I have a "build" machine where I produce binary 
packages. Then I install the binary packages on other machines.

On the "build" machine, I use...
pkg_chk -g
pkg_rolling-replace -vu

Once that's completed successfully, I use pkg_chk on the other machines 
like this...

pkg_chk -g
pkg_chk -bua -P ftp://path/to/build/machine/pakcages

That should mean you can use the second form here with the 
ftp.netbsd.org or any pkgsrc repository.

The only thing that I believe doesn't work well here is that if I leave 
multiple versions of binary packages in the repository, pkg_chk doesn't 
always pick the best (latest) one.

I have been using this method for 3 stable pkgsrc releases with minimal 
issues, on NetBSD and RedHat Linux. For NetBSD, I also use pkg_comp to 
build the packages, then install binary packages everywhere with pkg_chk.

Louis