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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: which ports require dialog during update
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Galati, Michael wrote:

> Unfortunately, there's no good way of upgrading packages on FreeBSD
> (that I'm aware of, at least).  My solution (crude as it may be) has
> been to remove all the packages and reinstall.

There's pkg_upgrade from sysutils/bsdadminscripts.