[ANNOUNCEMENT] The pkgsrc-2008Q2 Branch

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:53:14 +0100
Alistair Crooks <agc at pkgsrc.org> wrote:


> We don't have portupgrade, but there are a number of other ways of looking
> at the problem.
> 
> 1. "make update" - looks at all the packages installed, including

> 2. "make replace" - addresses the problems with "make update" by going

> 3. "pkg_rolling-replace" - the nearest thing to automating this scheme.
> 
> 4. Use pkg_comp to build packages in a chroot environment, and then have
> an install-binary-package fest.

	Also my current favorite wip/pkgmanager which uses a want list of
packages works out what's changed and updates (with make replace), installs
and removes as necessary.

	None of these work well with package renames though and build
failures can still cause problems (unlike portupgrade the old shared
libraries are removed by all of these mechanisms).

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