On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:11:30 -0500 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:46:05PM -0700, Eric Brunson wrote: > > I've been searching the manual and the man pages, but I can't seem to > > find a command to update an installed package to a newer version. I > > always get a message like this: > > > > pkg_add: package 'expect-5.43.0_1' or its older version already installed > > > > I only find info on "pkg_add" and "pkg_delete" for binary packages, the > > only references to updating a package give directions on how to use the > > ports tree. > > > > Is there a way to update an installed package with a newer version?
> sysutils/portupgrade is the usual tool. I think portmaster can do this too. "portupgrdae -P" will try to use a package and then fall back to building a port and "portupgrade -PP" will try to use only packages while portmaster is not capable (so far?) to use packages. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
