pkg_upgrade?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:51:51PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:42:43PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've read the documentation and it seems there's no pkg_upgrade or 
> >>pkg_update, or a way to install an updated/upgraded package.  I'd like 
> >>to determine if that is indeed the case.
> >
> >portupgrade -P or -PP
> 
> OK, since I had upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, I used portsnap to get the 
> ports, then I used pkg_add -r to get portupgrade and then, as a test ran
> 
>  portupgrade -PP expat
> 
> It failed to update expat however, because it kept looking in the 
> 6.0-RELEASE paths.  I presume this is because even though the binary 
> upgrade of the base to 6.1 went well, uname, etc., think I still have a 
> 6.0 machine.  So where is the *real* version id stored and how can it be 
> (should it be?) safely modified?

It's reported by the kernel, so if it's still saying 6.0-RELEASE then
that's what you're still running.

Kris
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