Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-10-02 Thread r0ller
t.com (Link -> mailto:g...@lexort.com) > Dátum: 2017 szeptember 30 18:09:06 Tárgy: Re: package upgrade strategy Címzett: r0ller < r0l...@freemail.hu (Link -> mailto:r0l...@freemail.hu) >   pkgsrc is designed, more or less, to have packages built consistently from the same source tree.

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-30 Thread Greg Troxel
pkgsrc is designed, more or less, to have packages built consistently from the same source tree. You can often get away with having some packages be old. Other than the old packages not depending on or being dependencies of newer ones, you're on thin ice. If a package is not available in a newe

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-29 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:20:50 +0200 (CEST) From:r0ller Message-ID: | but I hoped that there's a way to avoid compiling relatively big programs | (like seamonkey) in a case when I just want to check something out [...] There is - you can keep using the binary p

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-29 Thread r0ller
m: 2017 szeptember 28 18:20:31 Tárgy: Re: package upgrade strategy Címzett: Jeff_W < j...@sdf.org (Link -> mailto:j...@sdf.org) >   On 28 September 2017 at 08:40, Jeff_W wrote: > % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-A > % sudo make clean && sudo make replace > > If the above breaks pk

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread coypu
I suspect this is more fallout from people mis-updating libraries. try manually deleting and adding midori again. I'm hoping it rebuilt the package even though there's no indication to the binary package bits that it changed.

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread Brad Spencer
r0ller writes: > Hi Brad, > > I'd do that if it was possible (having the newest versions of all my > packages) but as said, midori is not available any more in the 7.1 package > repo so it cannot be upgraded (not even the same version of midori is > available with just an updated list of depen

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, r0ller wrote: > By the way, what kind of difference is indicated by the number in the > 'nb' suffix? Means the original code (upstream source) was not changed. The nb means we may be building or installing it differently (like due to a new patch, new build option, or a dep

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread Jeff_W
Alistair Crooks wrote: > On 28 September 2017 at 08:40, Jeff_W wrote: > > % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-A > > % sudo make clean && sudo make replace > > > > If the above breaks pkg-C: > > > > % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-C > > % sudo make clean && sudo make clean-depends && sudo make update > > Orthogonal to thi

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread Alistair Crooks
On 28 September 2017 at 08:40, Jeff_W wrote: > % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-A > % sudo make clean && sudo make replace > > If the above breaks pkg-C: > > % cd /pkgsrc/foo/pkg-C > % sudo make clean && sudo make clean-depends && sudo make update Orthogonal to this discussion - pkgsrc was modified to use ju

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread Jeff_W
> I hope someone can give an answer to this question from a newbie: how can > I handle situations when an already installed package (say A) needs to be > upgraded due to a newly installed package (say B) as it's being a > dependency for it but another already installed package (say C) still > needs

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread r0ller
levél Feladó: Brad Spencer < b...@anduin.eldar.org (Link -> mailto:b...@anduin.eldar.org) > Dátum: 2017 szeptember 28 14:13:53 Tárgy: Re: package upgrade strategy Címzett: r0ller < r0l...@freemail.hu (Link -> mailto:r0l...@freemail.hu) >   r0ller writes: > Hi All, > > I

package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread r0ller
Hi All, I hope someone can give an answer to this question from a newbie: how can I handle situations when an already installed package (say A) needs to be upgraded due to a newly installed package (say B) as it's being a dependency for it but another already installed package (say C) still nee