On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon <[email protected]> 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.
> > > I am working on getting the logs > > Those should be interesting. From my own experience, I know > there is some software that cannot be easily be updated the > binary way, but for most things, it should "just work", > especially if you keep the default options and have sufficient > time. :-) > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
