Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:12:36 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Eric Brunson <brunson@brunson.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade a binary package Message-ID: <14852075@srv.sem.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20061214201130.GA96791@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:11:30 -0500") References: <4581A9FD.1060301@brunson.com> <20061214201130.GA96791@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:11:30 -0500 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:46:05PM -0700, Eric Brunson wrote: > > I've been searching the manual and the man pages, but I can't seem to > > find a command to update an installed package to a newer version. I > > always get a message like this: > > > > pkg_add: package 'expect-5.43.0_1' or its older version already installed > > > > I only find info on "pkg_add" and "pkg_delete" for binary packages, the > > only references to updating a package give directions on how to use the > > ports tree. > > > > Is there a way to update an installed package with a newer version? > sysutils/portupgrade is the usual tool. I think portmaster can do this too. "portupgrdae -P" will try to use a package and then fall back to building a port and "portupgrade -PP" will try to use only packages while portmaster is not capable (so far?) to use packages. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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