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Date:      Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:21:56 +0200
From:      Sulev-Madis Silber <freebsd-stable-freebsd-org730@ketas.si.pri.ee>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: pkg upgrade with inverting match? (proposal)
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sure you want "packages" there? not ports?

they are all packages after all, some of them are base, some of them are ports

so upgrade packages upgrades what?



On March 20, 2026 11:54:27 AM GMT+02:00, vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> wrote:
>Added my proposal for additional pkg(8) aliases here:
>- https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2626
>
>In short:
>
>```
>  % grep -E 'FreeBSD-(p|b)' /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
>    upgrade-packages = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods";
>    upg-pkgs         = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods";
>    upgrade-base     = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-base";
>    upg-base         = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-base";
>```
>
>So now one can:
>
># pkg upgrade-packages
>
>To only upgrade pkg(8) 3rd party packages w/o touching PKGBASE Base System.
>
>... and with that:
>
># pkg upgrade-base
>
>To only upgrade PKGBASE Base System and do not mess with 3rd party software.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>
>Regards,
>vermaden
>
>
>
>
>Temat: Re: pkg upgrade with inverting match?
>Data: 2026-03-19 16:24
>Nadawca: "Kurt Jaeger" <pi@freebsd.org>
>Adresat: "Charles Sprickman" <spork@bway.net>; 
>DW: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; 
>
>> This is where bugs.freebsd.org waits for
>> patches and submissions.
>> 
>> And wiki.freebsd.org pages to update 8-}
>> 
>> Well, at least, before the Big AI in the Sky
>> comes to do all this for us 8-}
>> 
>> -- 
>> pi@FreeBSD.org         +49 171 3101372                  Now what ?
>
>


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