From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 03:11:53 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 1F060106564A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:11:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19D58FC14 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:11:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-185-71.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.185.71]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6587B3CCF8; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:11:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q283BoEo003503; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:11:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:11:50 +0100 From: Polytropon To: David Jackson Message-Id: <20120308041150.422a4c57.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20120308005143.2b0763c7.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:11:53 -0000 On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:04:35 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > 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. Have you been able to perform the download manually? This is _not_ for actual use, but for diagnostics! Is the URI accessed by portupgrade properly constructed? Typically it's a FTP URI that you can check using the system's standard FTP tool (or web browser, if you want). I had similar trouble years ago when portupgrade wasn't considered "mature enough", but today there should be a good reason for a failing download. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...