Aaron Bliss wrote:
Hi everyone, first let me say that I'm pretty new to bsd, so please
forgive
the newbie questions; I've been using linux (redhat, suse, centos) for
many
years, and so learning bsd was a bit of a learning curve, but not bad (I
almost never use gui's for administration); I was wondering if there
are any
packagement tools for freebsd/pcbsd that offer simular functionality to
up2date or yum; I take care of installing and updating complete rpm based
systems using yum, and have not found a tool simular to yum for
freebds (I'm
also trying to stay away from pbi's, since they are specific to
pcbsd); I've
used the pkg_add, pkg_delete, portupgrade tools, but am just looking
for an
easy way to ensure my entire bsd box is updated; Also, as I understand
it,
bsd makes use of ports, by using tools such as cvsup, however I have
never
had much success compiling my own software, as such much prefer to use
binary packages, which I understand that the freebsd authors provide; for
example, if I wanted to install pine, I would much rather install it by
running pkg_add -r pine ; I'm just looking for a simple way to update
currently installed binaries, simular to installing new binaries with
pkg_add ; thanks very much for your help with this.
Aaron
portupgrade has an option in /usr/local/etc/pktools.conf which sounds
like what you want.
# USE_PKGS: array
# USE_PKGS_ONLY: array
#
# These are lists of ports that you prefer to use packages to
# upgrade or install. They apply -P/--use-packages and
# -PP/--use-packages-only to specific ports, respectively.
#
# cf. -P/--use-packages and -PP/--use-packages-only of
# portupgrade(1) and portinstall(1)
#
# e.g.:
# USE_PKGS = [
# 'perl',
# 'ruby',
# 'python',
# ]
#
# USE_PKGS_ONLY = [
# 'x11*/XFree86*',
# '*openoffice*',
# ]
USE_PKGS = [
]
USE_PKGS_ONLY = [
]
use portversion -l "<" to see whats not at the latest version, and use
portaudit to see which (if any) have security issues.
I use
USE_PKGS = [
"*/*",
]
on machines what are slow or low on disk space but let portupgrade build
from source otherwise as I like to fine tune the compile options from
time to time
hope this helps.
Vince
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