Re: Advice on switching to pkgsrc-2026Q1 branch

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Isac Monção <isacmoncao%disroot.org@localhost> writes:

> I don't have much experience with NetBSD and pkgsrc yet, and I'd like
> to know if it would be appropriate for me to uninstall everything and
> recompile after switching branches.

Uninstall, no, but recompile yes.

If you are building all your own packages from source, then what I
suggest is

  cvs up -r pkgsrc-2026Q1
  make backups, one more than you think you need ;-)

and then either

  pkg_rolling-replace

  choose one of pkgbob or pbulk, and build all the packages you need

  (one of the above, on a dedicated build machine)


See

  https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_upgrade_packages/

but realize that there is some cruft, and there is no pointer to the
(very new still) pkgbob.