Thanks for all your responses. * Ottavio Caruso ([email protected]) wrote: > Never done it myself, but have you considered this: > > pkg_info -Q PKGPATH -a > pkgs_i_want_to_have > > pkg_info -a | sed 's/ .*//' | tail -r | while read p ; do pkg_delete $p ; done > > cat pkgs_i_want_to_have | (while read pp ; do cd /usr/pkgsrc/$pp ; > make && make install ; done) I have seen it. But I thought there was a simpler way i.e. a single command. I was wrong. There is no straight way.
* Eric Haszlakiewicz ([email protected]) wrote: > That won't do quite what you want because it'll mark *all* packages as ones > that you explicitly asked to be installed, which tends to lead to a lot of > unnecessary work figuring out why you're getting conflict between old and new > versions or renamed packages that other packages depend on. > Pkgsrc keeps track of which ones you pkg_add'ed (or make install'd) vs what > just happened to get installed as a dependency and if you stick to just > trying to (re)install the former things go much smoother. > I don't remember offhand how to get that list, but I think it was not quite > as obvious as it should be, so you might need to look around a bit for the > right commands. I compared the output from pkg_info -Q PKGPATH -a and /var/db/pkg. The contents are different. But I don't know that much. * Greg Troxel ([email protected]) wrote: > Another approach, which will have a period of possible trouble and then > be ok is to mark all packages as needing rebuild and then running > pkg_rolling-replace. > > cd /var/db/pkg > pkg_admin set rebuild=YES * > cd /usr/pkgsrc > pkg_rolling-replace -uvk < /dev/null > RR.000 2>&1 Probably, that is the answer I'm looking for. I shall look into it. Though, it is not a single command. Last of all, thank you very much. -- Pongthep Kulkrisada "Nothing ever exists entirely alone without relativity."
