• Registered: 2005-07-06
  • Posts: 21

Topic: updating a package?

Is there a way to update a package?
For example:
I have perl-5.6 installed and want to update it to 5.8 without having to remove other packages that depend on 5.6.

Problem:
I have no internet connection available yet(still trying to figure that out) so I have to download everything at work and burn it to cd.

Is there a way to do a make update to update from cd instead of ftp?

Thanks for all the help. You all rock!!

BTW, I'm running NetBSD 2.0.

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  • From: United Kingdom
  • Registered: 2005-03-25
  • Posts: 1,504

Re: updating a package?

Not that I know of - you may have to wait for your net connection

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  • dynek
  • A bizarre NetBSD user
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  • From: Switzerland
  • Registered: 2005-03-26
  • Posts: 1,049

Re: updating a package?

Not sure I'm right but:

You could run make show-all-depends-dirs in Perl5's directory. It'll return what deps are needed. Dunno if it will also show the build deps. Anyway. If that is enough, you can check the distinfo file of each deps and download them, then burn a cd, go back home and put the files in /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/.
Then run make install clean in perl5's directory.

Hope this helps!

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