From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 03:04:37 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 77542106564A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:04:37 +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 E87188FC14 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagv3 with SMTP id v3so54438lag.13 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:04:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=cbIVyDrNIlMQdI5cF1q9zquHadwfg9ga/5y841dUWwI=; b=Vbht5P65tCg8U0OgSTsGJo9LwcxJqW2V/6kpINHnydTZCcIqAUTAOhWJkeGVeGJsCB GinWmU1al0SxUjWXuebZYql4ivEoKW7PtaunE4v5aj2hVIvGLsCq6FvlSmuUscoRiqp5 bUU80LHa6cirJzS3uuW1BM4rJVYCHvCWnzo7508+i6rFRb//gCvD9rcwpdpAZkZTnXeJ I5QH+q444UCHxqFPXHwV/vD2c48edqUM8mgOSfJ9JgUaV2j6BiM+Me1AuIIBJh0nSf6k gf7CIBbT5vZzUbLnMct80gUfKZ0sxyGQ6GolmgwkVSifOG5TQlqNN5/MMCJSwUQs4G9/ 4akw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.128.163 with SMTP id np3mr3208892lab.51.1331175875652; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.45.137 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:04:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120308005143.2b0763c7.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20120308005143.2b0763c7.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:04:35 -0500 Message-ID: From: David Jackson To: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades 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: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:04:37 -0000 On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > > Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were > > > implemented in some form long ago. For example, updated applications > > > are compiled and available online. You can use "pkg_add -r" to > > > install the newest binary package that is available, or you can update > > > your an installed application by updating the ports and using > > > portupgrade, which has options to control whether you compile updates > > > from source or install binary packages. > > > > > > > > > > > > pkg-add -r does not seem to be an "upgrade all packages" sort of feature > I > > am looking for. I have tried pkg-upgrade, portmaster, and portupgrade, > all > > of these do not work. > > The portupgrade -PP command should be fine, if your ports > tree is up to date. > > > portupgrade -PP did not work for me, it gave me error messages about failed downloads. > > > I am working on getting the logs > > Those should be interesting. From my own experience, I know > there is some software that cannot be easily be updated the > binary way, but for most things, it should "just work", > especially if you keep the default options and have sufficient > time. :-) > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >