> I have a notebook with a couple of devices which require non-free > firmware. When I installed 5.0-release (amd64 from CD) it asked me if I > wanted those files downloaded on first boot; when I said YES it > proceeded to find and download them and everything 'just worked'. > (This was very convenient; my thanks to the developers who made it > happen.) > > But when I upgraded to a 5.0-current snapshot (and later rebuilt from > source, most recently as of 9 January 2012) and then ran 'pkg_add -ui' > it was unable to update those files: "Couldn't find updates for > uvideo-firmware-1.2p0, iwn-firmware-5.6p0". > > I'd expect that making 'pkg_add -u' able to find these files would be > fairly simple (either by giving it access to the same data used by the > installer or by recording where it was found with any package added from > a source not in PKG_PATH), and it would certainly make life a bit more > convenient when upgrading. Am I missing something important, is this on > someone's TODO list, do the installer and pkg_add developers not talk to > each other, or what?
It is not simple. While pkg_add has a PATH that it will look at, last time I tried this it only uses the first component of the path that is successful. It does not want to mix contents. Anyways, the result is that this does not work. Until it does, use fw_update.
