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[20060109]
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Updating my home PC's pkgs
After running NetBSD 3.0(_whatever) for some time on my home PC,
and after there are 3.0/i386 pkgs available now, I decided to update
all the pkgs I use the other day. In short, the process was a lot less
painful than expected.
Using "pkg_info -u" gave me a rough idea of what I really installed
(instead of what was pulled in as dependencies), and I then made a list
of packages i wanted. As I didn't dare removing all my packages before
the update, I set up a chroot environment in which I later installed
all new packages, running "build.sh install=/usr/sandbox" from /usr/src.
After "chroot /usr/sandbox", I took my above list, and ran "pkg_add"
on each one, pointing the PKG_PATH environment variable at the binary
pkg repository on the NetBSD FTP server. Almost everything went smooth,
except the few packages that cannot be made available via FTP -
acroread, acroread5, mplayer and xv. Using pkgsrc to install them
worked. Surprise.
After that I moved aside /usr/pkg and /var/db/pkg, replaced them with
symlinks to /usr/sandbox/usr/pkg and /usr/sandbox/var/db/pkg,
and rebooted the system. Maybe I should say that my home PC logs me
in immediately via some magic dust, runs .xinit which starts up
fvwm2, firefox, fires up the DSL connection and a few other things,
so rebooting this machine is quite a good test to see what breaks.
With one exceptions, everything worked: firefox is now called
firefox-gtk1 (I detest gtk2+!) so this wasn't found immediately.
After adding a symlink to give me back a 'firefox' binary, everything
works as before, just with newer packages.
In summary, the drama that I expected to manifest in missing binary
packages and broken pkgsrc packages just wasn't there. I'm happy.
Thank you, NetBSD! :-)
[Tags: hubertf, packages, pkgsrc, updating]
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