Re: [Chicken-users] reinstall all eggs

[Andre Kuehne]

Alex Shinn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4/19/07, Andre Kuehne <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Currently "chicken-setup -l" gives you all module-names like array-lib-ec
> >                     , array-lib-hof, etc., so this is nothing you can 
> > easily pass back to
> > chicken-setup.
>
> That's true, but the command wasn't using the -l option, but -C (-check),
> which lists only those eggs (not module names) which have new versions
> available.  If there's an error in processing, you can rerun it any number
> of times and it won't reinstall the same version twice.

Yes i know. It works as you described it. Although there are some packages
which have no version information, so these would get reinstalled.

> So chicken-setup already gives you all the info you need.

I just tried a variation of your example (with -l instead of -C) to reinstall
all installed eggs (regardless if they have updates or not). This might be
usefull after an upgrade of chicken itself.