a binary package update

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 02:03:10 -0700 (PDT), Martin Badie <martinbadie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I update a pre-compiled package [...]

You cannot update a pre-compiled package, you can only overwrite
or replace the package (tbz file). However, you can update an
installed port or package; in most cases, it doesn't even matter
if you installed from a port or from a package.



> [...] for example I have a package-1.0.tbz and I have downloaded
> package-2.0.tbz. What I want is to update a installed 1.0 package
> to 2.0 without internet connection.

Is is relatively easy, but you need to make sure first that you
have all the dependencies for package-2.0, for example libdep-1.3,
depend-3.2.1 and libfoo-0.22.7. You first need to fetch them.

Now a question: The system that has internet access: Do you want
to install the new packages there, too?



> I have portupgrade-2.4.6_2,2
> installed on my system.

If you answered the question with "yes", then portupgrade can do it
for you. Simply update package-1.0 to package-2.0 and let
portupgrade create packages (-p). You can then transfer those
packages to the other system which can't fetch them by itself.

But if you answered "no", the task would be as follows: Get the
newest version of a package along with all those packages this
new version depends on. In order to do so, you may use the
simple (and ugly) shell script I attached. It uses pkg_add to
fetch those packages, but it does NOT install anything.




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Polytropon
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