I noticed that in
the past few years, updating softwares through ports has been requiring
more user intervention, due to the way some dependencies are being
updated from one version to the next. Would using binary packages allow
to avoid more such user intervention?
Yes. All dependencies would be incorporated automatically.
Only ports without equivalent package that additionally have
OPTIONS to set would invoke a configuration screen, and this
screen would have to be dealt with only in the first run of
the updating process.
There are also options for portmaster that can be used to
control program behaviour in case of problems (e. g. some
package not found, conflicting ports, versioning problem,
or port marked "broken").
So, what I was referring to in particulars was special updates like this:
20110517:
AFFECTS: users of lang/perl*
AUTHOR: s...@freebsd.org
lang/perl5.14 is out. If you want to switch to it from, for example
lang/perl5.12, that is:
Portupgrade users:
0) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety):
pkgdb -Ff
1) Reinstall new version of Perl (5.14):
env DISABLE_CONFLICTS=1 portupgrade -o lang/perl5.14 -f
perl-5.12.\*
2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl:
portupgrade -fr perl
So you are saying that this type of special interventions is not
necessary when using only binary packages, right?
Thanks!
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