upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

[dan]

On Wednesday 24 June 2009 17:19:09 you wrote:
> On Monday, 22 June 2009 16:48:02 RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
> >
> > Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
> > > I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
> > > ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
> > > about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it
> > > was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u' over one or
> > > two quite major changes and not had any problems that haven't been
> > > down to an individual ports.
> >
> > You still need to read UPDATING, portmanager handles some of the
> > issues automatically, but not all.
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> Hello,
>
> Here is a perl hack I use to automatically read and parse UPDATING as part
> of my daily upgrade routine.  It is part of a larger set of five scripts
> which use:
>  1. "csup" to update ports
>  2. "make index" to update the /usr/ports/INDEX
>  3. "pkg_version" to identify the ports that need upgrading
>  4. "portfetch" to download the tarballs
>  5. a script to display the relevant contents, if any, of UPDATING using
> the hack shown below and the contents identified in step 3 above.
>
> These five scripts are combined in a master script (csup-all) which I
> invoke the first thing in the morning.  After doing some other morning
> chores I then run "portconfig -a -v" to set up any configuration settings
> prior to running "portmaster -a -u".  Everything is automatic except for
> the configuration.
>
> Here is the perl hack.  It can be improved by comparing the ports that need
> to be updated (step 3) with the ports specified within UPDATING (step 5). 
> The embedded ansi codes will work with the default FreeBSD console
> settings, otherwise they can be removed.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> #
> # file:    csup-update.pl
> #
> # created: 2006-07-16
> #
> # purpose: To review update notes in /usr/ports/UPDATING
> #          This program will only display those notes issued
> #          since last csup
> #
> # algorithm: Each line of the file /usr/ports/UPDATING is scanned and if
> #          it finds a date in the form ^yyyymmdd$ the date is assigned
> #          to the variable $date.  Otherwise all non-date lines are printed
> #          to STDOUT.  As soon as this program finds a date older than the
> #          last update this program quits and prints an appropriate closing
> #          message.
> #
> unless ( open ( MYFILE, "/usr/ports/UPDATING" ) ) {
>     die ("Cannot open input file /usr/ports/UPDATING.\n") ;
> }
>
> unless ( open ( LASTUPDATE, "/root/bin/csup-lastupdate.txt" ) ) {
>     die ("Cannot open file csup-lastupdate.txt.\n") ;
> }
>
> $eof = '' ;
> $date = $lastupdate = <LASTUPDATE> ;
> $line = <MYFILE> ;
> $count = 0 ;
>
> while ( $line ne $eof ) {
>     if ( $line =~ /^2\d{7}/ ) {
>         $date = $line ;
>         $date =~ tr/://d ;
>                 $count++ ;
>     }
>
>     if ( ( $date - $lastupdate ) >= 0 ) {
>         if ( $line =~ /^2\d{7}/ ) {
>                         print ("^[[32m$line^[[0m") ;
>         } else {
>             print ("^[[0m$line") ;
>                 }
>         $line = <MYFILE> ;
>         $date = $lastupdate ;
>     } else {
>         $count-- ;
>         if ( $count == 0 ) {
>             print ( "^[[36mThere are no updates to review. ") ;
>             } elsif ( $count == 1 ) {
>             print ( "^[[36mThere is only one update to review. ") ;
>                 } else {
>             print ( "^[[36mThere are $count updates to review. ") ;
>         }
>         chop  ( $lastupdate ) ;
>         print ( "The last run of csup was on $lastupdate.^[[0m\n\n"  ) ;
>
>         exit ;
>     }
> }
> # EoF
>
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Hello mfv !

Thanks for sharing your perl hack and your experience :-)

I do not know anything about PERL, but I am starting taking a look at this !

THanks

dan