On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:11:17PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > On 09/23/13 22:54, Marc Espie wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25:57AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > >>* Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> [2013-09-23 12:22:47 +0200]: > >> > >>>On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:32:20AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > >>>>To update packages: pkg_add -iu (-i is for interaction to selection > >>>>flavors of pkg's and -u is for update). Must be run with privileges, i.e. > >>>>sudo or root user. > >>>You don't need -i in most cases these days, pkg_tools default to > >>>interactive > >>>if run on a terminal now. > >>> > >>>(-I can be used to revert to non-interactive mode) > >>> > >>Cheers Marc, I wasn't aware of that. Just a habit I got into ages ago. > >Yeah, it's something I look at in usage patterns. > > > >Lots of people don't follow the tools development too closely, > >and so they keep using options which are no longer needed. > I use pkg_add -ui because that's what is in the upgrade instructions e.g. > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade53.html#Pkgup > > Is that a special case?
No the faq hasn't been updated... :( it was already there in OpenBSD 5.2, actually.
