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Automatic Version-checking for pkgsrc (2)

May 4, 2008 / posted in automation, bash, BSD, NetBSD, Opensource, pkgsrc, shellscript / No Comments

One of my first blog-posts was about . It was about how to use lintpkgsrc for checking which packages can be updated, but lintpkgsrc does its work rather slowly, and often times has problems with certain makefiles, especially with buggy ones. Due to a discussion on the pkgsrc-users mailinglist, I stumbled across an interesting and [...]

Automatic version-checking on NetBSD / pkgsrc-based systems

March 14, 2008 / posted in automation, bash, Operating System, programming, shellscript / No Comments

I am using NetBSD on several machines, with pkgsrc-current as base to install packages from. At first, whenever I wanted to see whether some packages needed an update, I had to run a cvs update command on the pkgsrc directory. After that was done, a lintpkgsrc -i was necessary to see, which of my installed [...]