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Re: Upgrading software with pkgsrc



Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:

> I don't understand why NetBSD must have an additional tool like pkgin
> to perform full upgrades whereas in OpenBSD you can just upgrade the
> whole lot with "pkg_add -u". It looks like a case of "not invented
> here" that plagues the *BSD ecosphere.

pkg_install is a collection of tools that more or less operates on
single packages, with the only exception I know of being that
pkg_install can recurse to install dependencies.  pkgin is a
whole-package-set tool, and they work together.  So this "do you type
pkg_add -u or do you type pkgin ug" is really an unimportant
distinction.

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