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Date:      Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:54:27 +0100
From:      vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>, Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-pkgbase@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: pkg upgrade with inverting match? (proposal)
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Added my proposal for additional pkg(8) aliases here:
- https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2626

In short:

```
  % grep -E 'FreeBSD-(p|b)' /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
    upgrade-packages = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods";
    upg-pkgs         = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods";
    upgrade-base     = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-base";
    upg-base         = "upgrade -r FreeBSD-base";
```

So now one can:

# pkg upgrade-packages

To only upgrade pkg(8) 3rd party packages w/o touching PKGBASE Base System.

... and with that:

# pkg upgrade-base

To only upgrade PKGBASE Base System and do not mess with 3rd party software.

Hope that helps.


Regards,
vermaden




Temat: Re: pkg upgrade with inverting match?
Data: 2026-03-19 16:24
Nadawca: "Kurt Jaeger" <pi@freebsd.org>
Adresat: "Charles Sprickman" <spork@bway.net>; 
DW: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; 

> This is where bugs.freebsd.org waits for
> patches and submissions.
> 
> And wiki.freebsd.org pages to update 8-}
> 
> Well, at least, before the Big AI in the Sky
> comes to do all this for us 8-}
> 
> -- 
> pi@FreeBSD.org         +49 171 3101372                  Now what ?



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