pkg upgrade -f refusing to upgrade packages???

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 8 05:13:20 UTC 2014


On 08/09/2014 03:24, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Craig Rodrigues wrote:

>> > If you read the man page, you will see that pkg upgrade does not take
>> > individual package names as arguments.

> Are you sure about that? Quoting the man page for 1.3.7:
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>      pkg upgrade [-fInFqUy] [-r reponame] [-Cgix]
>          [<pkg-origin|pkg-name|pkg-name-version> ...]
> 
>      pkg upgrade [--{force,no-install-scripts,dry-run,fetch-only}]
>          [--{quiet,no-repo-update,yes}] [--repository reponame]
>          [--{case-sensitive,glob,case-insensitive,regex}]
>          [<pkg-origin|pkg-name|pkg-name-version> ...]

pkg upgrade being able to take package name arguments is new in 1.3.x

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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