pkgng: how to upgrade a single port?

[George Kontostanos]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013, at 15:10, Mark Felder wrote:
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> > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013, at 14:53, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've recently switched to pkgng, only to be disappointed that there
> > > doesn't seem to be a way to upgrade a single port, pkg upgrade seems to
> > > be an all or nothing operation. Am I missing something?
> > >
> >
> > pkg install for remote packages, pkg add for local packages
> >
>
> pkg add actually might not like what you're doing and tell you that the
> package is already installed... I have a feeling I've seen it do that.
> Don't have a way to test it at the moment.
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You can alway lock a package or the packages that you don't need to
upgrade. See: "pkg help lock"

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