Re: pkgin command semantics (was package version numbering change)

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2019-09-11 at 14:13 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > ug or fug?  ug will only upgrade non-automatic packages.
> 
> Can somebody understand why there is "ug", and when it is
> reasonable/rational to sue it?

Basically, never :)  One useful operation might be to upgrade only
pkg_install and pkgin prior to a full-upgrade, which may be closer to
its intended original purpose if mimicking apt behaviour, but even
then there may still be unintended upgrades if some core library gets
gets bumped.

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