Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:31:41 +0000 From: Ricardo Jesus <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com> To: Sebastian Setzer <sebastiansetzer@alice-dsl.net> Cc: Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest Message-ID: <496F108D.9060906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <67CE2BFC0C158B4C96BC1229798DE50F01FA51F4@HSNMST02V05.hsn.alice-dsl.net> References: <67CE2BFC0C158B4C96BC1229798DE50F01FA51F2@HSNMST02V05.hsn.alice-dsl.net> <20090113220157.GA70336@aleph.cepheid.org> <67CE2BFC0C158B4C96BC1229798DE50F01FA51F4@HSNMST02V05.hsn.alice-dsl.net>
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Sebastian Setzer wrote: > Reading the handbook and several pages on the web, i got the impression that ports are always compiled from source. > I should have read the handbook more thorougly, sorry. It mentions portupgrade -P. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Osterholm [mailto:freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org] > Sent: Tue 1/13/2009 11:01 PM > To: Sebastian Setzer > Subject: Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +0100, Sebastian Setzer wrote: >> Hi, >> I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in the release notes. >> After that, I installed Openoffice (with pkg_add) and got several warnings like this one: >> pkg_add: warning: package 'gnome-vfs-2.22.0_2' requires 'atk-1.22.0_1', but 'atk-1.20.0' is installed >> >> Now I did >> # pkg_add -r atk >> pkg_add: package 'atk-1.22.0_1' or its older version already installed >> >> so with pkg_add -r I get newer packages than I got with freebsd-update. Why? > > freebsd-update only updates the base system. It doesn't touch ports. > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Portmaster is also nice to update ports. Plus its doesn't have dependecies.
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