Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:51:51 -0400 From: Joe <dev@freedomcircle.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade? Message-ID: <447CB067.1080309@freedomcircle.net> In-Reply-To: <20060530002535.GA94917@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <447B86F3.6070500@freedomcircle.net> <20060530002535.GA94917@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:42:43PM -0400, Joe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've read the documentation and it seems there's no pkg_upgrade or >> pkg_update, or a way to install an updated/upgraded package. I'd like >> to determine if that is indeed the case. > > portupgrade -P or -PP OK, since I had upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, I used portsnap to get the ports, then I used pkg_add -r to get portupgrade and then, as a test ran portupgrade -PP expat It failed to update expat however, because it kept looking in the 6.0-RELEASE paths. I presume this is because even though the binary upgrade of the base to 6.1 went well, uname, etc., think I still have a 6.0 machine. So where is the *real* version id stored and how can it be (should it be?) safely modified? Joe
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