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Re: How to perform a conservative package upgrade with pkgsrc?



Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:

> Two options that you have pointed out, neither of which I'm comfortable with.
>
> What if went through a different route?
>
> I accept the fact that many dependencies need upgrading. I then update
> the whole pkgsrc, but I want to build the dependencies first and then
> install them manually with "pkg_add -u" (or maybe "-uu).
>
> How can I do that? "make depends" will "build and install
> dependencies". What if I want just build them?

So to build A which depends on B, B has to be installed.   So if you
update all of pkgsrc, you are back to doing a build of what you want,
and then make replace when it builds a dependency.

If you want to build everything first then use a second machine or a
chroot.

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