From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 19: 3:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D78937B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:03:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelstar (dialup-63.209.84.31.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [63.209.84.31]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA15306; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:02:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <003501c088d6$e65ff0c0$1f54d13f@angelstar> From: "jdls" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: References: <000a01c088d5$8a1ad600$1f54d13f@angelstar> <20010128132701.D30652@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: a quick question Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:03:12 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sorry about my line wraps...i *didn't* notice I was using outlook express..duh.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey To: jdls Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 6:57 PM Subject: Re: a quick question > [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