Re: Upgrade all installed packages

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 4/17/23 23:03, Marko Bauhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> I believe this is a beginner question which is asked often.
> But I didn‘t found an exactly answer.
>
> I‘m using pkgsrc on a System where I don‘t have Admin permissions. So I installed pkgsrc and a couple of packages in my home dir.
> After a while I upgraded pkgsrc to a higher version by switching to the next CVS tag. So I now I want to upgrade my installed packages as well. But how?
>
> I see these options
> - going step by step into every package and installing it again
> - I read something about bulk installation?
> - pkg_comp?
>
> Can you give an advice what the best way is to Upgrade all my installed pkgs from source (compile) as a non-Admin user?
>
> Thanks
> Marko

pkgtools/pkg_chk and pkgtools/pkg_rolling-replace (layered on top of 
pkg_chk) are the basic tools I'm aware of.  The difference is 
pkg_rolling-replace attempts to minimize the number of packages 
deinstalled at any instant, so the system is more usable during the 
upgrade process, which can take a long time.

In either case, the tree must be updated separately before running the 
tool, e.g. "cvs -q up -dP".

To fully automated it, you can install sysutils/auto-admin and run 
"auto-update-pkgsrc --defaults".  This will update the source tree and 
then run "pkg_chk -su".

I run this overnight as a cron job on my development system and manually 
on other installations when the time is right.

For cron, run "crontab -e" and add something like the following:

00 01 * * * env 
PATH=/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg/bin:/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg/sbin:$PATH 
auto-update-pkgsrc --defaults > /home/bacon/pkgsrc-update.log 2>&1

Adjust the paths above according to your installation.

Run "man 5 crontab" for more info.

Best,

   J