From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 03:36:37 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 0C0D5106564A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:36:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (asmtp1.iomartmail.com [62.128.201.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4678FC0A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q283aTSB010102; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:36:29 GMT Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (host-92-22-173-30.as13285.net [92.22.173.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q283aSWj010094; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:36:28 GMT Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 469C733C1F; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:36:28 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:36:28 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: David Jackson Message-ID: <20120308033628.GD50702@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20120308005143.2b0763c7.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W5WqUoFLvi1M7tJE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:36:37 -0000 --W5WqUoFLvi1M7tJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:04:35PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > > > Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were > > > > implemented in some form long ago. For example, updated applicatio= ns > > > > are compiled and available online. You can use "pkg_add -r" to > > > > install the newest binary package that is available, or you can upd= ate > > > > your an installed application by updating the ports and using > > > > portupgrade, which has options to control whether you compile updat= es > > > > from source or install binary packages. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > pkg-add -r does not seem to be an "upgrade all packages" sort of feat= ure > > I > > > am looking for. I have tried pkg-upgrade, portmaster, and portupgrade, > > all > > > of these do not work. > > > > The portupgrade -PP command should be fine, if your ports > > tree is up to date. > > > > > > > portupgrade -PP did not work for me, it gave me error messages about fail= ed > downloads. >=20 >=20 >=20 > > > > > I am working on getting the logs > > Work harder. Try script(1). Regards, --=20 Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html --W5WqUoFLvi1M7tJE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk9YKTsACgkQHduKvUAgeK4rSQCfStS9/dafia+iB8nP2LgYzUZJ 5EEAoLrmGCmustvvLlRdT786sL3XDaFO =BtCF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W5WqUoFLvi1M7tJE--