On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 06:49:40AM -0800, Max Stalnaker wrote: > Hello, > > at a recent snapshot, about 11/22/10 > i386 > > I find pkg_add -u problematic for updating single files. > suppose the current directory is in /usr/ports/packages/i386/all > so here we find many packages > > pkg_add -u works as documented in man pkg_add > one might think pkg_add -u * would work the exact same way, but mostly it > reports that files are not found > this becomes a issue if I > > pkg_add -u mplayer*
Regardless of the pwd, it will use PKG_PATH. So if '.' is not in PKG_PATH, you're telling pkg_add to update mplayer-20101024p0.tgz, which is not a packagename, from the repository set in PKG_PATH. remember, pkg_add takes package stems/names as arguments, not packages filenames. In your usecase, i think 'PKG_PATH=. pkg_add -u mplayer' should work just fine. > I end up thinking that through this approach I can only update all packages > installed, not one package only. This seems to me to be an undesirable > situation. > > So, perhaps time to go back to cvs, as I am often advised for other reasons. This makes no sense at all. Landry
