On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:07:25PM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote:

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> I am working with a recent snapshot installation (090208) and I have

> some questions regarding updating packages with pkg_add.

>

>

> ...

> 1. I am shown the following:

>

> Not updating .libs-curl-7.16.2, remember to clean it

> Not updating .libs-db-4.2.52p11, remember to clean it

> Not updating .libs-pcre-7.1, remember to clean it

> Not updating .libs-png-1.2.18, remember to clean it

>

> How do I "clean it"?

You could remove those packages with something like
# pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/.libs-curl-7.16.2
But make sure you have not compiled something without using the ports

system which need those libs.
> I have these files on my system.  By "cleaning it" should I merely

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> delete the earlier version?  If so, why doesn't pkg_add do it?

At the time of updating those packages the shared libraries were still

needed from other packages. Therefore those .libs-* packages which only

contain the shared libs.
> /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.8.0

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> /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.6.0

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> /usr/local/lib/db4/libdb.so.4.2

> /usr/local/lib/db4/libdb.so.5.0

>

> /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.2.1

> /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.1.1

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> /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5.2

> /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.6.0

This are these old libs and their newer versions.
> ...

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> 2. I am using the following incantation:

>

> # pkg_add -ui

>

> but the documentation [1] says to use:

>

> # pkg_add -ui -F depends -F updatedepends

You could add  -F alwaysupdate
> However, the man page states that the first keyword is unsafe.

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>

> What is the recommended procedure and why would I need to use special

> keywords for forcing stuff?

IMO the above looks good. For example package B depends on A and both

need an update. You can't simply update A because there is another

package (B) which depends on it and the dependancies doesn't match for

the newer A. You can't simply update B because of missing dependancy

either. Therefore you need to force the update. I hope I understood and

explained this correct.
> ...

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> 3. To serve remote systems, on my server I store installed packages

> locally through the use of the PKG_CACHE variable.  Thus, after a

> packages upgrade, I am left with multiple versions of the same package.

>

> Is there any known method, besides manual deletion, that will clear out

> the older versions?

I don't know.
> Thanks in advance,

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>

> /juan

>

>

> [1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#Pkgup

Regards,

Markus