Le Samedi 10 Mars 2007 04:55, Joachim Schipper a icrit : > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:08:30PM -0500, Peter wrote: > > Le Vendredi 9 Mars 2007 18:24, Joachim Schipper a ?crit?: > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Peter wrote: > > > > On 4.0, besides uninstalling ports, updating the ports tree, and > > > > re-installing is there any other way to do this? What is standard > > > > practice? > > > > > > # pkg_add -ui > > > > Are you serious? I thought that was only for straight packages. It > > actually fetches code from third party repositories? The pkg_add man > > page could be clearer but I see it now in ports(7). > > It appears we don't really understand each other. The standard way of > updating installed packages is something like > > # export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/4.0/i386 > # pkg_add -ui > > but you are right that this only updates packages. Yes, it does fetch > stuff from third-party repositories if told to, so you could change > PKG_PATH to point to one of your own machines (listing this machine > first, and then the rest, doesn't work as one would like to, though). > > Of course, this covers only packages. Almost all ports produce packages > that may be redistributed, but this is not always the case;
So when I apply 'pkg_add -u' to a package that was installed through a port I am not getting and compiling source code (what happened when I made the original install) but an actual updated binary? Or am I still missing something? > if not, the > standard procedure is more along the lines of > > # cd /usr/ports/archivers/freeze > # make update > > or > > # cd /usr/ports/archivers/freeze > # make package > # pkg_add -ri /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/freeze-2.5.tgz Ok. What I am messing with here is the clamav package. Very common indeed. Now clamav depends on unarj which does not exist as a package. So I install it via ports. I am trying to figure out how to make an eventual update of clamav and hence of unarj. From what I understand, 'pkg_add -u' will not work on this particular port due to licensing so, from your post, I update archivers/unarj via, say, cvsup, and then 'make update'? Pedro
