Updating from 11.3-stable to 12.1-stable?

Bob Willcox bob at immure.com
Tue Apr 28 15:11:44 UTC 2020


On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Per Hedeland wrote:
> On 2020-04-28 00:00, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:41:50 +0200
> > Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> >
> >> from scratch, add your OS modifications, then install your
> >> "top level ports" (the things you're intending to use), and
> >> all required dependencies will be resolved automatically as
> >> they are needed.
> >
> > 	Run pkg leaf on the existing system to get a first cut of the list
> > of packages to install.
> 
> Hm, that sounds like it could be quite useful for the way I typically
> do upgrades, but
> 
> $ pkg leaf
> pkg: unknown command: leaf
> 
> For more information on available commands and options see 'pkg help'.
> $
> 
> - and I'm afraid I can't spot a likely candidate for a typo in pkg(8).
> 
> Please help!:-)

I can't find any mention of a leaf command in the man page for pkg or its help output,
but it does work on my systems.

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