On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> [...] I found out about pkg_chk, which can generate a list of what has
> to be upgraded, and upgrade these using either pkgsrc or precompiled
> binaries, and pkg_comp, which has the wonderful ability to build
> packages inside a sandbox.  Now, the two then still have to be
> combined manually.  Isn't it possible to create some program, say
> pkg_holy_grail, which essentialy is a pkg_comp-aware version of
> pkg_chk?  It would figure out a list of packages which have to be
> recompiled, build them inside a sandbox, leaving your running system
> untouched, and, when it has finished building without errors, replace
> your existing packages with a minimum of downtime.  

You can find an experimental update script for pkgsrc here:

	http://www.coolfactor.org/~gavan/update/

Please followup to tech-pkg@netbsd.org

Greetings, Mark Weinem