keep ports up to date.

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 14 May 2003 10:10:30 +0930, Chris Munchenberg <cjm at ava.com.au> 
wrote:

> Thanks for your help. Its taken me a week to get back to you because 
> there was so much updating being done. It took me a while to get the have 
> of portdb & portupdate. But I now have wxPython working!!
>
> I just have 1 further question, and I'm asking you because its in your 
> script. How important is marcusmerge? What part does it play in the ports 
> system.

marcusmerge is only for people who want to test the developement version of 
Gnome. It might be not stable or so, like before the first Gnome 2.3.1 was 
crashed on -CURRENT for few days and finally got it fixed. More information 
can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/newsflash.html#2003April13:0 
..

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Klaffenboeck To: Mezz 
> bsdforums.org Cc: martin.klaffenboeck at gmx.at ; gnome at freebsd.org ; 
> cjm at ava.com.au Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 6:02 AM
> Subject: Re: keep ports up to date.
>
>
>
> Am 2003.05.08 21:21 schrieb(en) Mezz bsdforums.org:
>>>> You should
>>>> install
>>>> sysutils/portupgrade, and get used to using it to keep your installed
>>>> ports up-to-date.
>>>
>>> I'm using this script by hand daily:
>>>
>>> --------- ports_uptodate.sh ----------
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> if [ "$1" != "-s" ]; then
>>> cd /usr/ports
>>> cp INDEX.ports INDEX
>>> make update
>>> cp INDEX INDEX.ports
>>> marcusmerge -u
>>> portsdb -uU
>>> fi
>>> pkgdb -F
>>> portversion -l "<" | awk '{ print($1); }' > /root/work/update
>>> vi /root/work/update
>>> portupgrade `cat /root/work/update`
>>> pkgdb -F
>>> -------------------------------------
>>
>> You can cut the portversion to portupgrade like this:
>>
>> -------------------------------------
>> ...
>> ...
>> pkgdb -F
>> portupgrade -ra
>> pkgdb -F
>> -------------------------------------
>
> I know, but I want to make sure that I have the possibility to choose 
> what I want to update, and there are some ports I really want to update 
> by hand.  (tmda for example)  So I have the
>
> vi /root/work/update
>
> line for removeing some ports I want to update by hand.  (Normally I do 
> that before I close the vi)
>
> Martin
>
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