I suppose that "pkg_upgrade -a" is equivalent to "apt-get update" then "apt-get upgrade", which isn't so hard. hmm
Oh and current isn't stable :S and whenever I try to post anything on the forum I get pulled to pieces about the quality of my grammer and formating of posts. Maybe I should try again and have a second attempt with a bit more knowledge. thanks, Philip On 09/05/12 07:43, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: > > > On 2012-04-30 12:20, Philip wrote: >> >> The problem is that the freebsd install isn't well patched because I >> just can't get along with the package management as well as debian apt. >> > > Can you be more specific as to what problems you have with FreeBSD > package management - maybe we could help you ? an example would be fine. > > I agree that the current FreeBSD package management lacks features > and/or works differently than you'd expect when used to the linux ones. > > But until the "pkgng" package management is ready I've found a simple > workaround that in my opinion makes the current FreeBSD package > management usable. > > 0) become root > > 1) Add the the "bsdadminscripts" package to your insstallation: > > pkg_add -r bsdadminscripts > > 2) make sure that you have a /usr/ports directory: > > mkdir -p /usr/ports > > 3) run "pkg_upgrade -a" to refresh all you currrently installed packages > to the latest versions. > > 4) run "pkg_upgrade some_pkg_name" to refresh just the one package and > its dependencies. > > > HINT: -n option is a dry-run flag - shows what would have been done if > command was issued without the -n option > > HINT: -v option is a verbose flag - shows more detailed output. > > Hope that helps. > > /Uffe > > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
