Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:32:47 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading packages Message-ID: <20090902013247.a040bda9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090901171553.446cdfa5@chris.makeworld.com> References: <20090901171553.446cdfa5@chris.makeworld.com>
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On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:15:53 -0500, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Probably a long time discussed question: > Updating a system is (or can be) done with freebsd-update. > What is the suggested way of upgrading packages (not ports)? There's at least portupgrade with the -P option that forces the use of packages. You can as well use pkg_add to perform an "upgrade-like" action, but you'll have to take care for more things manually. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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