Upgrade/Install in one command?

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Wed Apr 21 18:30:41 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 21 April 2010 18:06:23 Atom Powers wrote:
> I would like to make my configuration management system update and/or
> install packages on FreeBSD. I've been avoiding that little thorn
> because I haven't had very many hosts and updates have been fairly
> rare recently; but no more. (cfengine2)
> 
> Basically, I wish pkg_add would upgrade a package if it was already
> installed; of that portupgrade would install a package if it was
> missing. Neither seem to work.
> 
> How do you manage packages on a large number of FreeBSD hosts?

I use portmaster, since it seems to mostly DTRT.

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Bruce Cran


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