Date: 04 Sep 2002 11:14:09 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: tom worster <fsb@thefsb.org> Cc: Untitled <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: upgrading pkgtools Message-ID: <44znux3hz2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <B99B9211.DB13%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <B99B9211.DB13%fsb@thefsb.org>
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> >> how-to upgrade pkgtools? > > > > Several possible methods: > > 1) Use the package from 4.6. > > 2) Use the port instead of a package. > > 3) Download the new package, uncompress it with bzip2, and > > re-compress it with gzip. > > thanks. however, i would think of these more as workarounds (from which 1 > and 2 i have been using) than as upgrades to pkgtools. True. The original question had seemed to imply that upgrading the whole system was out of the question. > the convenience of using pkg_add -r seems like it might be worth doing the > upgrade. i read on the ports list that updated pkgtools have been uploaded > somewhere (stable, current?). so what i'm really looking for is a brief > description of what i need to do to make these new pkgtools work on a 4.6.2 > system. I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. You could try to rebuild the pkg_add command without the rest of the system, but I'm not sure I'd recommend that in your case. > i'm guessing that installing a source tree from the cd (i don't usually need > one), updating it with cvsup (i never bothered to set it up before), and > make world (never done that before), might do it. but i'm hoping there is a > simpler alternative. ? If you wait about four weeks, you should be able to do a binary upgrade to 4.7, and that will "fix" things too... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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