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Date:      Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:25:12 +0300
From:      "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To:        Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrade package questions
Message-ID:  <cb5206420511081225o7064a02ewc13a6f6299627d3d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4370FD8D.5020101@outstep.com>
References:  <4370FD8D.5020101@outstep.com>

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On 11/8/05, Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Could someone please tell me how to upgrade a package over the web?
>
> What I mean is that i have used /stand/sysinstall >>configure >>
> Pachages which allowed me to choose ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org to install a
> package from but now I need to manually upgrade a package "Gettext
> 0.13.?" I think that it was over to "Gettext 0.14.?"
>
> What would be the command like way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Lonnie
>
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The straight way would be:
pkg_delete mypackage && pkg_add -r mypackage

Still I would prefer installing portupgrade and doing:
portupgrade -PP mypackage



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