Re: pkg upgrade with inverting match?

On 19/03/2026 14:42, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2026, at 7:29 am, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:

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>> First and most important (at least for me) would be a clear separation of base system upgrades from 3rd packages, without having to enter 40-character-long arguments.
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> The "pkg" command allows you to define aliases in pkg.conf.  So, if you wanted to save on typing, you could, say, define "base-upgrade" and "ports-upgrade" aliases to restrict "pkg upgrade" to just the appropriate repositories.

Yes, and everyone will fix it locally, each in their own way, so every 
computer will have a different command to achieve the same result. What 
an amazing time we live in.

I still don't think it's a good idea to combine base system updates and 
package upgrades into a single command by default. Now even something as 
simple as patch level security base update can completely break user's 
desktop if package upgrade runs at the same time and the repository 
happens to be missing such important packages as Firefox, Thunderbird, 
KDE / Plasma, etc.
(missing packages that pkg upgrade then uninstalls from the local 
machine — I see this problem far too often)

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman