On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 10:16:11AM -0400, Clint M. Sand wrote: > man pkg_add states: > > -u Update the given pkgname(s), and anything it depends upon. > If no pkgname is given, pkg_add will update all installed packages. > This relies on PKG_PATH to figure out the new package names. > > However if I run -u with no package name, it tells me a list of possible > candidates, but doesn't actually update anything. I have to manually do > each one. Am I doing something wrong or is this expected for some > reason? > > (on i386) > # dmesg | head -1 > OpenBSD 4.1-stable (GENERIC) #0: Sat May 5 21:34:13 EDT 2007 > # echo $PKG_PATH ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/packages/i386/ > # pkg_add -u > Candidates for updating autossh-1.2g -> autossh-1.3 > Candidates for updating bzip2-1.0.3 -> bzip2-1.0.4 > Candidates for updating cdrtools-2.01 -> cdrtools-2.01p0 > Looking for updates: complete > # > > > Any ideas? > Try pkg_add -iu -F update -F updatedepends instead. You will have better results.
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