On 24 Jan 2006 18:34:35 GMT
Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 2006-01-24, Marcin Jessa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there any better solution for automatic package upgrade than
> > pkg_chk ?
> > The main problem with it is it deinstalles all upgrade candidates
> > before upgrading them.
> 
> pkmanager:
> 
> http://www.scode.org/pkgmanager/
> 
> Quote from homepage:
> 
>   There is currently only one method (to my knowledge) of updating
>   packages in in pkgsrc - using make update (which is what pkg_chk -u does
>   aswell). Unfortunately, it will begin by removing all packages that
>   require the package being updated.
>   [...]
>   pkgmanager attempts to alleviate these problems by upgrading all
>   packages "in place" without needing to remove all packages that require
>   the package being upgraded.
> 
> (I know of it from 
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-10/msg00069.html)
 

Great for the answer.
Thanks a lot :)

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