Would anyone be interested of this tool supported BSD?
reddit / BSD

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Reish · 2018-06-22 05:16

I've been working on [this](https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade)
tool for last couple of weeks. It basically calls the "upgrade" method
of every installed package manager. If anyone shows interest, I can
add support for your favorite BSD.

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johnklos · 2018-06-22 05:47

Good idea, but personally I don't trust cargo, NPM, pip and other non-
OS-provided update mechanisms. There's too much potential for (and too
many examples of) exploitation.

That said, if you had pkgsrc methods, I'd try it out :)

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flexibeast · 2018-06-22 06:54

> I don't trust ... NPM

Ah yes, [the joy that is NPM](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/com
ments/7zfbi0/npm_v570_critical_bug_destroys_linux_servers/).

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icantthinkofone · 2018-06-22 10:40

Very good point.

I also don't understand what is meant by needing to call multiple
package managers to upgrade packages. On FreeBSD, we only need one,
unless it also includes updating npm and similar software but those
aren't part of the system.

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ander_bsd · 2018-06-24 20:29

>npm

Meh. Crashy, error prone. Sorry.

For OpenBSD, syspatch && pkg_add -vui or  just "openup" from M:Tier.
That for the OS. For the rest, a simple script under ~/bin would be
enough.

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vvelox · 2018-06-26 09:40

Well CPAN can be handy for testing, when using it under a user and not
installing to a base.