Upgrade a binary package
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net
Thu Dec 14 12:56:28 PST 2006
On Thursday December 14, 2006 at 03:11:30 (PM) Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > I've been searching the manual and the man pages, but I can't seem to
> > find a command to update an installed package to a newer version. I
> > always get a message like this:
> >
> > pkg_add: package 'expect-5.43.0_1' or its older version already installed
> >
> > I only find info on "pkg_add" and "pkg_delete" for binary packages, the
> > only references to updating a package give directions on how to use the
> > ports tree.
> >
> > Is there a way to update an installed package with a newer version?
>
> sysutils/portupgrade is the usual tool. I think portmaster can do this too.
portmanager lang/expect -l
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Gerard
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