Reading the handbook and several pages on the web, i got the impression that ports are always compiled from source. I should have read the handbook more thorougly, sorry. It mentions portupgrade -P.
-----Original Message----- From: Erik Osterholm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue 1/13/2009 11:01 PM To: Sebastian Setzer Subject: Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +0100, Sebastian Setzer wrote: > > Hi, > I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in the release notes. > After that, I installed Openoffice (with pkg_add) and got several warnings > like this one: > pkg_add: warning: package 'gnome-vfs-2.22.0_2' requires 'atk-1.22.0_1', but > 'atk-1.20.0' is installed > > Now I did > # pkg_add -r atk > pkg_add: package 'atk-1.22.0_1' or its older version already installed > > so with pkg_add -r I get newer packages than I got with freebsd-update. Why? freebsd-update only updates the base system. It doesn't touch ports. Erik _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
