Hello, sorry for poor English, I will try to explan clearer with my best. On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 04:48:17PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:04:36PM +0800, Yue Wu wrote: > > > I'm trying to use package instead of ports these day, but a few > > questions have: > > > > 1. How to reserve packages that fetched via `pkg_add -r`? > > > > 2. How to know if there are updates for packages, and how to update? > > For (1), do you mean 'preserve', as in save a copy? If so, then > 'portmaster -b [...]' will save a backup copy of installed packages.
Yes, I mean 'preserve'. I've maned portmaster, seems -b is for a installed package, so it will preserve it by packing up the files from a installed package, why not preserve it just when fetching with `pkg_add -r`? I think it's the best way, I don't like the portmaster way to do it after. > > There may be a better way, but one way to deal with (2) is to have an > up-to-date ports tree. Then 'pkg_version -vL=' will show you which of > your ports are out of date. Then 'portmaster -PP [...]' will force > package use for updates. > > If you have an up-to-date ports tree, then I think that > > portmaster -abPP > > will update all of your ports, using packages, and save a backup copy > of the installed versions. I'm trying to avoid to touch the port tree, it has 700+ MB... On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:43:21PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/05/2011 07:48, Greg Byshenk wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:04:36PM +0800, Yue Wu wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to use package instead of ports these day, but a few > >> questions have: > >> > >> 1. How to reserve packages that fetched via `pkg_add -r`? > > Not sure what you're asking here, can you clarify? Sorry, Greg has guessed it right ;p > >> 2. How to know if there are updates for packages, and how to update? > > > > There may be a better way, but one way to deal with (2) is to have an > > up-to-date ports tree. Then 'pkg_version -vL=' will show you which of > > your ports are out of date. Then 'portmaster -PP [...]' will force > > package use for updates. > > > > If you have an up-to-date ports tree, then I think that > > > > portmaster -abPP > > The -PP option has to be by itself on the command line, or you can use > --packages-only. > > However portmaster doesn't need a ports tree to operate on packages > only. You can use the --index-only --packages-only options and it'll > work just fine. You'll want to read the man page before getting started. > Is it the only way? As I said above, I don't like portmaster's way, I thought there might be a cmd package-update just like freebsd-update, but seems it doesn't, even doesn't have a KISS way to know if there are updates for packages. -- Regards, Yue Wu Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine China Pharmaceutical University No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
