How to upgrade php or python

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On 12/06/17 05:12, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 06/12/2017 05:35, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>> Let’s say I’m in a very common situation where a new PHP update is
>> released. I have the core php71 package plus another dozen like
>> php71-mysqli. How do I upgrade these without being forced to do it
>> one at a time or upgrading every package on the system?
> 
> Assuming you have built your own pkg repository with poudriere and set
> the default php version to whatever you want, then a simple 'pkg
> upgrade' will do the trick.  This pretty much works for changing the
> default version of php as well as just patch-level updates.
> 
> The trick with pkg(8) is not to try and upgrade things piecemeal -- it
> is much more complicated than it at first appears, and the likelyhood is
> you will end up with inconsistencies and even software failures.  It's
> pkg(8)'s entire reason for existence to sort out all of this sort of
> dependency relationships, and at the moment it does that best when it's
> allowed to consider all of the packages you have installed.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> 

So are you saying it's broke