Comments on: pkg_radd: oddly successful with upgrades https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/11/20/pkg_radd-oddly-successful-with-upgrades/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:45:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/11/20/pkg_radd-oddly-successful-with-upgrades/comment-page-1/#comment-41909 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:45:14 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=6809#comment-41909 Try a ‘bmake update’ or ‘bmake upgrade’ with pkgsrc, (I forget which it is), and it may work, it may not. I extended the same worry to ‘pkg_add -u’, for valid reasons. I haven’t tried it on less cooperative packages like bmake itself, for instance.

All the binary packages I upgraded had newer versions available; what would happen if the newer package wasn’t there, or failed? Pkgsrc deletes the existing package and then installs the new. If anything goes wrong with installing the new package… the software is gone.

]]> By: Daniel https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2010/11/20/pkg_radd-oddly-successful-with-upgrades/comment-page-1/#comment-41908 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:13:01 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=6809#comment-41908 i don’t know anything about pkgsrc but openbsd does the same thing pretty well (‘pkg_add -u’ for both local and remote), so i’m curious why you think it shouldn’t work for pkgsrc when the option is provided?

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