From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 19: 7:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.abs.adelphia.net (smtprelay.abs.adelphia.net [64.8.20.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C91B37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there ([63.124.244.3]) by smtprelay2.abs.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GJFCJZ01.5YL; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:07:11 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gerald A.Speak Reply-To: gaspeak@va.prestige.net To: "Geoff Ludwiczak" , Subject: Re: package upgrade? Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:06:36 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <000701c1399b$6cce2d50$55a54c18@jolteon> In-Reply-To: <000701c1399b$6cce2d50$55a54c18@jolteon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010910020712.2C91B37B405@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sunday 09 September 2001 09:53 pm, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > Hey, > > I know there's a portupgrade utility to use for ports, but is there > something that can upgrade packages as well? I usually install alot of Believe it or not, portupgrade will work with packages as well... provided you have the packages downloaded.... Try man portupgrade... if that fails try portupgrade -P "portname" > packages, and I don't have the patience with ports because I have to wait > to get the package from some anonymous site, and then wait for it to > compile, etc. So are packages just updated for each release or are they > update regularily? I'm a Debian user as well, and I'm used to being able > to upgrade packages easily with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Does > this sort of thing exist for FreeBSD? Not to my knowledge.... > > Thanks > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: KVeSIq5vxWiYnVgD0GfGeG0pwjTUBPaF iQA/AwUBO5wgSTefnrAVLWZBEQJBFACg7iqEMzjpJxfERsWkR2DgmbC23jAAoP2V dYDX9AOoSctUttSUsnF4ZWt3 =tebA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message