From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 9 14:32:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C714937B503; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:32:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA05150; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:32:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f19MW0X23361; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:32:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200102092232.f19MW0X23361@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/19/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nik Clayton Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , Leif Neland , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_update In-Reply-To: <20010208232645.A86390@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010207202335.C20454@peorth.iteration.net> <20010208232645.A86390@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Comments: In-reply-to Nik Clayton message dated "Thu, 08 Feb 2001 23:26:46 +0000." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-327729888P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:32:00 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-327729888P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:23:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Leif Neland scribbled: > > | It seems pkg_update is only usable when installing from packages, not fro > m > > | ports. > > > > Because it is a package update system. If you want to update > > from the ports, use 'pkg_version -c |sh' > > Never, ever, *ever* do this. > > "pkg_version -c" is a hack to make cut-n-paste easier. The output is > sorted alphabetically and no notice is taken of dependencies between > different ports. Plus it's been known to wipe out Ports Upgrade kits. This was particularly bad when some upgrade kits replaced little non-essentials like ld*.so, things like that. I just put a big fat warning to this effect followed by "exit 1" at the start of the commands output, and committed to -CURRENT. I'll MFC early next week. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-327729888P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6hG/g2MoxcVugUsMRAkr2AJ0Q5985cUY0yrTLZLNBfLKOuwJBrwCgy+rp P+92RBVLmyChIQK1T2CSHTs= =AZ8F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-327729888P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message