libtool upgrade, entry 20060223 in UPDATING

[Hans Lambermont]

Fernan Aguero wrote:

> +----[ Hans Lambermont <hans at lambermont.dyndns.org> (25.Apr.2006 17:10):
> | 
> | 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 ?
> |
> +----]
> 
> Mmm ... maybe I'm missing something, but what about if you iterate
> over the list of the packages you want to install using a shell script
> that calls pkg_add for one package each time?

Yes this should work. When pkg_add knows where to find the dependency
packages it will add those first to help prevent the missing +REQUIRED
file complaints I got when I used pkg_add [a-f]*.tgz, which still
overran the max 200 limit.

regards,
  Hans Lambermont