Re: What happens if I mix pkgin binaries with pkgsrc-current?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 20 May 2014 16:31, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
>
>> I am quite happy with using pkgin and installing ready made binaries
>> from the latest stable branch. I am only running a simple desktop
>> environment and I have limited expectations.
>>
>> However, every now and again I woukd like to install bleeding edge
>> packages compiled from the -current release, for example now I'd like
>> to install Firefox 29 and I don't want to wait for the next quarter.
>>
>> What could go possibly wrong if I keep the bulk of my packages from
>> the stable branch and then tried to compile a new package from
>> -current?
>>
>> Dependency hell? Broken system? Package management conflict?
>
> A fair bit can go wrong, but it can often work.
>
> pkgin seems to have trouble when packages are installed that are not in
> its database of available packages.    I have tried to address this
> (perhaps successfully) by creating a local summary file
>
>   pkgsum () { (cd /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All && pkg_info -X *gz | bzip2 > 
> pkg_summary.bz2) }
>
> and then putting that in pkgin.conf (first, which is important):
>
>   # file:///usr/pkgsrc/packages/All
>   file:///usr/pkgsrc/packages/All
>
>   # NetBSD OS release can look like 6.0_STABLE, do not use it as-is
>   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/6.1/All
>
> If this succeeds, then you've reduced your problems to just mixing
> quarterly and current pkgsrc.
>
> If you update (make replace, presumably) something like firefox, and
> it's ok with the older versions of the libraries it needs, that should
> be ok.  But you may run into a situation where while the firefox package
> doesn't really need a newer gtk2+ (for example), it does because the
> minimum version in the -current pkgsrc entry does.  So you may want to
> update your tree to 2014Q1 and then cvs up -A selectively.
>
> So really  the big  issue will be that you may end up running more of
> current pkgsrc than you wanted to.

Thanks Greg,

I'll try and see what happens.

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Ottavio