Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-26 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On Tue, 23.10.2007 at 15:47:40 -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > I got a request to summarize my results to the list, so here's a > quick write-up. Based on my preliminary testing last week, pkg_replace > looks like the right tool for package-based server maintenance. Interesting, as I'm facing t

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-23 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:19:17PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:05:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to > > > upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. ... > > > Is there any better

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread soralx
> I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to > upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its > implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl > wrapper for an iterative "pkg_delete -f" followed by "pkg_add -f", > which made it problematic to upgr

Re: A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:05:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to > > upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its > > implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl > > wrapper for an iterative

A more tenuously package-related question

2007-10-14 Thread Clifton Royston
I used to use pkg_update from the 'pkg_install-devel' toolset to upgrade systems via replacement of binary packages. Its implementation had some minor flaws - it was essentially a perl wrapper for an iterative "pkg_delete -f" followed by "pkg_add -f", which made it problematic to upgrade either