From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 18:47:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05029106564A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:47:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djackson452@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684648FC15 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:47:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagv3 with SMTP id v3so10734977lag.13 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:47:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=NTgIKEoBjRAVASdCk5Taj0NEai6LzbOS5LrgwNyvmUU=; b=WxpCzOv7XbljMA2TBRFWw0H9yfyvQDImhLIcE0eQxjfns7fjr1EiqTFsvXOT0k8+i2 4PaW3kgj1LtXJld/oeeC0e4VWHZDT2rqkAcD77u3EKBqKiTvlaTcm2FM1An0qHHj7rzo w6Dc/iPTjgEemOO4rZspnAM7WKTRdv/d+2fdomfOoHJ2qIlYmndn9fbEFmAs8DTjLop3 KFr+UYgMI+TzI8rvIKwYgf0Yk+iLBdsK7rkEbMmDTiQFA79zr6uOrF1Js7fh98BSeD9S ieah5A/wOHGl5uio7BqyqDjczbu5YmPf2BL7WYfXmsevK6V7LsDJTg5HP0Pqdniu5AwC 0b5w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.123.76 with SMTP id ly12mr2227824lab.37.1331146073117; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:47:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.45.137 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:47:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F57A073.4080008@midsummerdream.org> References: <4F57A073.4080008@midsummerdream.org> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:47:53 -0500 Message-ID: From: David Jackson To: lists@midsummerdream.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades 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: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:47:55 -0000 On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Rob wrote: > I ran into problems with pkg-upgrade when I upgraded from > 8.2p6->9.0-RELEASE, and part of the problem ended up being a tool > pkg_upgrade used (uma). That was the reason portupgrade didn't work as > well. I ended up hacking the support tool and pkg_upgrade to do what I > needed, but they are both definitely broken. > > iirc, one of the issues with uma was it's url generation. It would > generate urls like 9-RELEASE instead of 9.0-RELEASE, the former being the > format for 9-STABLE and the later (which I needed) was for an upgrade for a > release. > > Sadly, I've forgotten the other issues, but I remember making about 3 > hacks to the tools to get it working. > > Well, thank you for posting. At least its just not me that seen these problems. For me, binary package updates are completely broken. I wonder how this severe and glaring problem got back FreeBSD engineers. It is such an annoying problem. Why cant they just make things work for people who want binary packages? As it is now, FreeBSD is totally unuseable to me. > Rob > > > On 3/7/12 11:05 AM, David Jackson wrote: > >> Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were >>> implemented in some form long ago. For example, updated applications >>> are compiled and available online. You can use "pkg_add -r" to >>> install the newest binary package that is available, or you can update >>> your an installed application by updating the ports and using >>> portupgrade, which has options to control whether you compile updates >>> from source or install binary packages. >>> >>> >>> >> >> pkg-add -r does not seem to be an "upgrade all packages" sort of feature I >> am looking for. I have tried pkg-upgrade, portmaster, and portupgrade, all >> of these do not work. I am working on getting the logs >> ______________________________**_________________ >> 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 " >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > 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 " >