Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:55:45 -0700 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "PetBuilder" <petbuilder@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Upgrading Packages. Message-ID: <3BB7B101.6464.6740FED@localhost> In-Reply-To: <009201c149d2$8939c930$0100a8c0@home>
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First, this is the wrong forum for asking technical questions. The correct forum would be freebsd-questions. However, this forum can be used to help you form the question or to figure out just which question to ask. :) This forum is mainly for newbies to gather and to discuss their joys/tribulations in using FreeBSD for various projects/reasons. Just an FYI for next time. :) > I am trying to do an upgrade of BIND to BIND 9.1.3. Are you trying to replace the BIND integrated into the FreeBSD base-system, or just want to add 9.1.3 to try out as a possible replacement? > I have a clean machine and I loaded FreeBSD 4.4 with a Minimal install > for a DNS machine. I want to upgrade the bind but I do not know how to > upgrade any packages without the ports already loaded on the system. Couple of different ways. However, first you have to define "upgrade": replace or add? > If I wanted to upgrade the package directly from the internet, how > would I go about it? As a general first rule of thumb, always check the man pages for help. :) If you don't know exactly which man page to check, try a search using "man -k <keyword>" man -k upgrade or man -k ports or man -k package would be very beneficial. :) As a quick shortcut: check the pkg_add man page. Note the -r option. As a quicker shortcut: consider adding the "portupgrade" package. Cheers, Freddie fcash@bigfoot.com > Any help would be grateful, > > Craig Rose > Web-Zonic, Inc. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may > contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not > the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > destroy all copies of the original message. > Linux is for people who hate Windows. FreeBSD is for people that like UNIX. -- unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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