libtool upgrade, entry 20060223 in UPDATING

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:00:19PM +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote:
> Frank Laszlo wrote:
> 
> > the '-p' argument for portupgrade will build packages on your staging
> > server, these packages can then be moved over to the production machine
> > to be installed.
> > Downtime should be minimal.
> 
> Well, in my first mail I started here; I have the full list of packages
> already built on the staging server. I moved them over to the production
> server, removed all old ports, and tried to install all of them with
> this : pkg_add *.tgz . But pkg_add refuses to proceed, complaining
> "pkg_add: too many packages (max 200)". I have over 400. If I choose a
> smaller subset with for instance pkg_add [a-f]*.tgz I get dependency
> problems, +REQUIRED files that are not there yet etc.
> 
> Perhaps I should up the hardcoded 200 to 500 in pkg_add and retry ?

Just specify the path where to find the dependencies and it'll do it
automatically, see the manpage.

Kris

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