NetBSD Branches pkgsrc-2005Q1

Posted by timothy on Monday March 28, 2005 @09:20AM from the enter-the-server-part-II dept.

jschauma writes "NetBSD's Alistair Crooks has announced the availability of the new stable branch pkgsrc-2005Q1 of the NetBSD Packages Collection (aka pkgsrc). This branch includes all the updates to the thousands of existing and additions of hundreds of new applications since the hereby obsoleted pkgsrc-2004Q4 branch. Some noteworthy infrastructure changes applicable to all 13 operating systems for which pkgsrc is available include the support for multiple digests to check the integrity of the distribution files as found on the Internet (triggered by the recently-found problems with the SHA-1 algorithm) and the so-called alternates framework."

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Re:Binary packages? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-03 20:17 · Score: 1, Informative

The answer to the question to recursively upgrade binary packages seems to be not pkg_chk, but pkg_add -uu. From its manpage:

-u If the package that's being installed is already installed,
either in the same or a different version, an update is per-
formed. If this is specified twice, then any dependant packages
that are too old will also be updated to fulfill the dependency.
See below for a more detailed description of the process.