From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 07:10:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8CB1065672 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 07:10:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nzp@riseup.net) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [204.13.164.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA208FC13 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 07:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fulvetta.riseup.net (fulvetta-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "Gandi Standard SSL CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 583FC5439C for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: nzp@fulvetta.riseup.net) with ESMTPSA id 465AD29F Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:10:15 +0100 From: Nikola =?utf-8?B?UGF2bG92acSH?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120308071015.GA18924@sputnjik.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120308005143.2b0763c7.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at mx1 X-Virus-Status: Clean 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: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:10:26 -0000 On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:04:35PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > 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 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. > > > > 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 failed > downloads. > Assuming you were trying on a RELEASE: Packages for a RELEASE are frozen. Since, most of the time, versions in ports tree are newer than the frozen ones, naturally, you'll get the error about failed download(s) (disregarding that in addition to that you might have proxy problems etc. that others have mentioned). Packages built against STABLE are generally up to date, and you can safely use them with the corresponding RELEASE. To do that, change the PACKAGESITE environment variable as described in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html and pkg_fetch(1). -- Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. -- H. R. Haldeman