Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:16:07 -0500 From: David Jackson <djackson452@gmail.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAGy-%2Bi8MjwagPp6ZP-30%2BdyV7eS28Xh8pZct-ZvR7jtbNsGpmA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F27816A.1060905@bananmonarki.se> References: <CAGy-%2Bi-6GLfoUuhUExjnVEKhM00TuUimhKuhboLkjBeXNk9hFg@mail.gmail.com> <4F27816A.1060905@bananmonarki.se>
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote: > 2012-01-30 18:52, David Jackson skrev: > > I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on >> Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried: >> >> *portupgrade -PP -a >> *portmaster -PP -a >> *pkg_update >> >> All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an unuseable >> state. >> > > What is the error message? They seem to have failed because they couldn't find the package on the download site. Other errors I got were that the package it had downloaded had an "unrecognized format". I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless I copy them by hand. I will have to rerun the commands to get the error messages and then transfer them by hand. > > > Why can't FreeBSD just make the package system "just work". >> > > It's already "just works" > > It does for you. I've had big problems with it. > > Right after >> installing FreeBSD I should be able to type a single command such as >> update_packages >> > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/**en_US.ISO8859-1/books/** > handbook/updating-upgrading-**freebsdupdate.html<http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html>; > >
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