Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:42:59 -0500 From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading packages (fail) Message-ID: <YVRtY88VuvOjslap@geeks.org> In-Reply-To: <6070.1632879098@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <e829d9fe-5b1c-605b-e617-a026c67b850b@holgerdanske.com> <6070.1632879098@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:31:38PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <e829d9fe-5b1c-605b-e617-a026c67b850b@holgerdanske.com>, > David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > > >> I've just now tried to correct that via the following commands and actions: > >> > >> freebsd-update fetch > >> freebsd-update install > > > >I do 'pkg update' here. > > > >> pkg upgrade > >> (power cycle / reboot) There should be another freebsd-udpate install here as well to cleanup and remove old shared libs no longer needed after you did your `pkg upgrade` > Also however, a bunch of stuff got removed, but with no real explanation > of why: > > Installed packages to be REMOVED: > abiword: 3.0.4_1 .... Frequently package dependancies change from time to time, and some dependancy is no longer required by some base package you have installed, and the old dependancy goes away. I see this quite often. You can also do a `pkg autoremove` to clean up packages that may be orphaned but not detected by this process as well.
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