Ideas and questions on pkgsrc

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:

> > talks about common packages to install via pkg_radd so people don't have
> > to guess names.
> 
> Directing them towards pkg_search should help, no?

pkgin search

> My by far most important gripe w/ pkgsrc is the inability to do mass
> upgrades from binary packages in a straightforward manner. Not even sure
> if it's anything the pkgsrc developers are concerned with.

pkgin upgrade

> What would you want that for? To the admin, having a way to ask "For
> which of my installed packages are there newer versions that I can
> upgrade too" sounds more useful.

pkgin list

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