On Mar 19, 2026, at 7:29 am, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/03/2026 11:35, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: >> On 3/19/26 12:14, vermaden wrote: > > [..] > >>> You can upgrade only with specified 'FreeBSD-ports' and 'FreeBSD- >>> ports-kmods' repos: >>> >>> root@freebsd15:~ # pkg upg -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods > > [..] > >> Hi vermaden, >> Oh yes, that does what I asked for. Thank you! >> For completeness reasons I think it would be nice to add an option to >> pkg to invert matches. Maybe it should invert -r as well! > > First and most important (at least for me) would be a clear separation of > base system upgrades from 3rd packages, without having to enter > 40-character-long arguments. The "pkg" command allows you to define aliases in pkg.conf. So, if you wanted to save on typing, you could, say, define "base-upgrade" and "ports-upgrade" aliases to restrict "pkg upgrade" to just the appropriate repositories. Cheers, Paul.
