From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 8:14:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4160937B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B75243E6A for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g84FEALu030578; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:14:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g84FEA4A030575; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:14:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: tom worster Cc: Untitled Subject: Re: upgrading pkgtools References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Sep 2002 11:14:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44znux3hz2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> how-to upgrade pkgtools? > > > > Several possible methods: > > 1) Use the package from 4.6. > > 2) Use the port instead of a package. > > 3) Download the new package, uncompress it with bzip2, and > > re-compress it with gzip. > > thanks. however, i would think of these more as workarounds (from which 1 > and 2 i have been using) than as upgrades to pkgtools. True. The original question had seemed to imply that upgrading the whole system was out of the question. > the convenience of using pkg_add -r seems like it might be worth doing the > upgrade. i read on the ports list that updated pkgtools have been uploaded > somewhere (stable, current?). so what i'm really looking for is a brief > description of what i need to do to make these new pkgtools work on a 4.6.2 > system. I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. You could try to rebuild the pkg_add command without the rest of the system, but I'm not sure I'd recommend that in your case. > i'm guessing that installing a source tree from the cd (i don't usually need > one), updating it with cvsup (i never bothered to set it up before), and > make world (never done that before), might do it. but i'm hoping there is a > simpler alternative. ? If you wait about four weeks, you should be able to do a binary upgrade to 4.7, and that will "fix" things too... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message