From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 18:16:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7105D1065670 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:16:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djackson452@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5288FC16 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagz14 with SMTP id z14so1051385lag.13 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:16:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=W6kqQr2VdfzMmJI2+WeD6uNhIOy0Ul6Sjfo9G5SszVk=; b=wrSDA8kXlQpURHBIY+YJu0xXdmMP3MMuwVwbQT58GySVpL7TAcElT1PmpTZ/Nj92cL 8ZK6FNcOaLCpGjbXLJ9GZFnsyMg19fEbjzqeDGHgmMUOrPico0WBDR2Eutk5cq0OygSu z1gtZ3rPYvFnCwG41cpvMHbWQfR3qGNdeIa4U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.36.97 with SMTP id p1mr7114249lbj.43.1328120167694; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.95.129 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:16:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F27816A.1060905@bananmonarki.se> References: <4F27816A.1060905@bananmonarki.se> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:16:07 -0500 Message-ID: From: David Jackson To: Bernt Hansson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:16:09 -0000 On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-01-30 18:52, David Jackson skrev: > > I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on >> Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried: >> >> *portupgrade -PP -a >> *portmaster -PP -a >> *pkg_update >> >> All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an unuseable >> state. >> > > What is the error message? They seem to have failed because they couldn't find the package on the download site. Other errors I got were that the package it had downloaded had an "unrecognized format". I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless I copy them by hand. I will have to rerun the commands to get the error messages and then transfer them by hand. > > > Why can't FreeBSD just make the package system "just work". >> > > It's already "just works" > > It does for you. I've had big problems with it. > > Right after >> installing FreeBSD I should be able to type a single command such as >> update_packages >> > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/**en_US.ISO8859-1/books/** > handbook/updating-upgrading-**freebsdupdate.html > >