From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 30 20:51:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B58D16B46A for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:51:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dev@freedomcircle.net) Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B4543D7B for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:51:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@freedomcircle.net) Received: from [192.169.1.3] ([71.101.6.8]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J0300J75J96WZM3@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 15:51:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:51:51 -0400 From: Joe In-reply-to: <20060530002535.GA94917@xor.obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway Message-id: <447CB067.1080309@freedomcircle.net> Organization: Freedom Circle, LLC MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <447B86F3.6070500@freedomcircle.net> <20060530002535.GA94917@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:51:21 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:42:43PM -0400, Joe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've read the documentation and it seems there's no pkg_upgrade or >> pkg_update, or a way to install an updated/upgraded package. I'd like >> to determine if that is indeed the case. > > portupgrade -P or -PP OK, since I had upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, I used portsnap to get the ports, then I used pkg_add -r to get portupgrade and then, as a test ran portupgrade -PP expat It failed to update expat however, because it kept looking in the 6.0-RELEASE paths. I presume this is because even though the binary upgrade of the base to 6.1 went well, uname, etc., think I still have a 6.0 machine. So where is the *real* version id stored and how can it be (should it be?) safely modified? Joe