Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:33:44 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Joe <dev@freedomcircle.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade? Message-ID: <20060530213344.GA34025@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <447CB067.1080309@freedomcircle.net> References: <447B86F3.6070500@freedomcircle.net> <20060530002535.GA94917@xor.obsecurity.org> <447CB067.1080309@freedomcircle.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:51:51PM -0400, Joe wrote: > 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? It's reported by the kernel, so if it's still saying 6.0-RELEASE then that's what you're still running. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEfLo4Wry0BWjoQKURAld+AJ9aGtvZO3SkVb7PvEaaCI4Z6WJTtACghFvv tMUJFyfshsjVSclHHrVVpuM= =uRt6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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