On 6/17/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thankyou so much for your response Henning :-)
On 6/17/06, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-17 13:32]:
> > One think I would like to use would be a utility like FreeBSD's
> > portupgrade ( with upgraded ports tree ofcourse ) to easily upgrade
> > installed ports. Don't know how easy it would be to make with our
> > ports system.
>
> huh? afaik, that tool is one of the worst hacks ever made.
>
Could you please explain why as time permits you to do so?
> our pkg_add -u, on the other hand, is so good and safe these days that
> I consider putting it into cron (using a server I control for PKG_PATH
> tho) on our production servers.
>
I get it :-) It is wonderful !
I got some problems with it :-(
it didn't update my packages. Could someone please tell me what I missed out?
# echo $PKG_PATH
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/
#
# pkg_add -uF mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1
Error from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/:
Unknown command.
Candidates for updating clamav-0.88 -> clamav-0.88 clamav-0.88.2
Ambiguous: clamav-0.88 could be clamav-0.88 clamav-0.88.2
Candidates for updating curl-7.15.1 -> curl-7.15.1 curl-7.15.3
Ambiguous: curl-7.15.1 could be curl-7.15.1 curl-7.15.3
Candidates for updating libnasl-2.2.5p4 -> libnasl-2.2.5p5
Candidates for updating clamav-0.88 -> clamav-0.88 clamav-0.88.2
Ambiguous: clamav-0.88 could be clamav-0.88 clamav-0.88.2
Candidates for updating mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1 ->
mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.3 mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2
mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4 mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1
Ambiguous: mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1 could be mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1
mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2 mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.3
mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4
Candidates for updating mysql-client-5.0.18p0 -> mysql-client-5.0.22
mysql-client-5.0.18p0 mysql-client-5.0.21
Ambiguous: mysql-client-5.0.18p0 could be mysql-client-5.0.18p0
mysql-client-5.0.21 mysql-client-5.0.22
Candidates for updating postgresql-client-8.1.3 ->
postgresql-client-8.1.3 postgresql-client-8.1.4
Ambiguous: postgresql-client-8.1.3 could be postgresql-client-8.1.3
postgresql-client-8.1.4
Candidates for updating zoo-2.10.1 -> zoo-2.10.1p0
Looking for updates: complete
Cannot find updates for unarj-2.43 unrar-3.54p0
# Candidates for updating clamav-0.88 -> clamav-0.88 clamav-0.88.2
ksh: Candidates: not found
# Ambiguous: clamav-0.88 could be clamav-0.88 clamav-0.88.2
ksh: Ambiguous:: not found
# pkg_info |grep firefox
mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1 redesign of Mozilla's browser component
Thankyou so much
Kind Regards
Siju
