forceupgrade recursively installs or upgrades NetBSD packages. Amazingly there is no "pkg_upgrade" tool in NetBSD 1.6, so this does what you'd expect it to do. It is useful for installing or upgrading massive package-trees with lots of dependencies and possible conflicts, such as GNOME or KDE.
Tags | Systems Administration Installation/Setup |
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Licenses | BSD Original |
Operating Systems | POSIX BSD NetBSD |
Implementation | Perl |