pkg-upgrade

  1. Cath O'Deray

    Hints: using script(1) or vidcontrol(1) when scrollback is insufficient

    With (for example) a virtual terminal such as ttyv1, it's sometimes impossible to see what's required. A command like this, following a major upgrade to base, might summarise a number of (port) packages to be removed, without allowing you to see the name of any such package: pkg upgrade...
  2. Cath O'Deray

    Using package build records at pkg-status.freebsd.org

    https://people.freebsd.org/~grahamperrin/pkg-status/ This brief guide includes: screenshots an explanation of why the latest option – not to be confused with packages from the main branch of the ports tree (familiarly known as latest) – is not reliable a hint about the current requirement to...
  3. yaslam

    Solved How to exclude packages from pkg

    Most of my system has packages installed through ports-mgmt/pkg, with one package editors/emacs-devel manually compiled through the ports system because I need to use my own compilation options with it. With this, I run into problems with pkg and the port conflicting, when the port has an...
  4. Cath O'Deray

    Solved pkg-upgrade(8), CONSERVATIVE_UPGRADE and ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel 3.3.99.20210521

    Below, why did pkg upgrade -f poudriere-devel not find the upgrade to 3.3.99.20210521? root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p:~ # pkg info -x poudriere poudriere-devel-3.3.99.20210303_2 root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p:~ # pkg upgrade -f poudriere-devel Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up...
  5. Rastko

    Solved Package upgrade deletes config

    Hi, Today I made an upgrade of new packages, of which there were many (like all the stuff I use), but the custom configuration appears to be overwritten. Specifically, I had to manually rewrite the X display manager resources and scripts, and my GWorkspace/WindowMaker integration started to...
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