From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 18:57:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D566137B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:57:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6E5306AC95; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:27:01 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:27:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: jdls Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a quick question Message-ID: <20010128132701.D30652@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000a01c088d5$8a1ad600$1f54d13f@angelstar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000a01c088d5$8a1ad600$1f54d13f@angelstar>; from jdls@apu.edu on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:53:29PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your message had no line breaks. On Saturday, 27 January 2001 at 18:53:29 -0800, jdls wrote: > > I would like to know if freebsd supports a feature of debian like > "apt-get dist-uprade" wherein the libs,packages, etc are upraded > automatically and via the net. In debian, you can always have the > latest release just by doing this so you won't have to be stuck with > an older version and thus, save money,time, etc in the "upgrade". I > have waded in some of the freeBSD documentation and I came across > "uprading via the CVS repository"...hmmm... No, that's something else. What you're looking for is the -r option to pkg_add. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message