libtool upgrade, entry 20060223 in UPDATING

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:18:34PM +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Well, I ran the pkg_add [somesubset]*.tgz in the directory with the
> packages, and according to PKG_ADD(1) they should have been picked up
> already (...If the packages are not found in the current working
> directory, pkg_add will search them in...).
> 
> Maybe it worked for the first few, and then the packages list grew to
> still hit the max-200 limit ? I think that is what happened.

Yeah, could be.  find . -name \*.tbz | xargs -n 10 pkg_add would have
done it though.

Kris
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