Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

[David Jackson]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bernt Hansson <bah at bananmonarki.se> wrote:

> 2012-01-30 18:52, David Jackson skrev:
>
>  I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
>> Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
>>
>> *portupgrade -PP -a
>> *portmaster -PP -a
>> *pkg_update
>>
>> All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an unuseable
>> state.
>>
>
> What is the error message?


They seem to have failed because they couldn't find the package on the
download site. Other errors I got were that the package it had downloaded
had an "unrecognized format".

I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless I
copy them by hand. I will have to rerun the commands to get the error
messages and then transfer them by hand.

>
>
>  Why can't FreeBSD just make the package system "just work".
>>
>
> It's already "just works"
>
>
It does for you. I've had big problems with it.


>
>  Right after
>> installing FreeBSD I should be able to type a single command such as
>> update_packages
>>
>
> http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/**en_US.ISO8859-1/books/**
> handbook/updating-upgrading-**freebsdupdate.html<http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html>
>
>