PKG-UPGRADE(8)

NAME
pkg upgrade - performs upgrades of package software distributions

SYNOPSIS
pkg upgrade [-fInFqUy] [-r reponame] [-Cgix] [<pkg-origin|pkg-name|pkg-name-version> ...]

pkg upgrade [--{force,no-install-scripts,dry-run,fetch-only}] [--{quiet,no-repo-update,yes}] [--repository reponame] [--{case-sensitive,glob,case-insensitive,regex}] [<pkg-origin|pkg-name|pkg-name-version> ...]

DESCRIPTION
pkg upgrade is used for upgrading packaged software distributions.

pkg upgrade compares the versions of all or specific packages installed on the system to what is available in the configured package repositories. Any out-of-date packages are added to a work list for processing. The difference to pkg-install(8) is that pkg upgrade tries to upgrade dependencies of packages matched as well while pkg-install(8) is more conservative during dependencies upgrade. Moreover, pkg upgrade cannot install new packages, so a caller should ensure that patterns specified as arguments have installed candidates for matching. If the -f (force) flag is given, all installed packages are added to the work list.

The package metadata downloaded from the repositories is then examined for each of the packages in the work list, and any missing dependencies are added to the work list as install jobs. Such implicitly added packages are flagged as candidates for autoremoval. See pkg-autoremove(8) for details.

Autoremoval flags are sticky, and will persist over reinstallation or upgrade of the packages concerned, even if subsequently the packages are named explicitly on a command line. See pkg-query(8) for finding the autoremoval status of a package, and pkg-set(8) for modifying it.

Where a package on the work list supplies a shared library, and that library has been updated, all packages requiring that shared library will also be added to the work list as reinstallation jobs.

The work list is sorted into dependency order and pkg upgrade will present it to the user for approval before proceeding, unless overridden by the -y option or the ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES setting in pkg.conf.

Packages are fetched from the repositories into the local package cache if they are not already present, or if the checksum of the cached package file differs from the one in the repository. Packages may be downloaded from any of the repositories mentioned in pkg.conf(5) or in the files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repo. See pkg-repository(5) for details.

Package repository catalogues will be automatically updated whenever pkg upgrade is run by a user ID with write access to the package database, unless disabled by the -U flag or setting REPO_AUTOUPDATE to NO in pkg.conf(5).

Finally, the work list is executed in dependency order. Package reinstall or update jobs are processed by removing the currently installed package and immediately installing the replacement. New dependencies are processed as installation jobs as part of the work list.

OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg upgrade:

-C, --case-sensitive
    Make the standard or the regular expression (-x) matching against pkg-name case sensitive.

-F, --fetch-only
    Do not perform installation of packages, merely fetch packages that should be upgraded and detect possible conflicts.

-f, --force
    Force the reinstallation or upgrade of the whole set of packages.

-g, --glob
    Treat the package names as shell glob patterns.

-I, --no-install-scripts
    If any installation scripts (pre-install or post-install) or deinstallation scripts (pre-deinstall or post-deinstall) exist for a given package, do not execute them.

-i, --case-insensitive
    Make the standard or the regular expression (-x) matching against pkg-name case insensitive. This is the default, unless modified by setting CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH to true in pkg.conf.

-n, --dry-run
    Dry-run mode: show what packages have updates available, but do not perform any upgrades. Repository catalogues will be updated as usual unless the -U option is also given.

-q, --quiet
    Force quiet output, except when -n is used, where a summary of the work list is always displayed.

-r reponame, --repository reponame
    Install packages from only the named repository, irrespective of the configured “active” status from repo.conf.

-U, --no-repo-update
    Suppress the automatic update of the local copy of the repository catalogue from remote. Automatic repository catalogue updates are only attempted when the effective UID of the process has write access to the package database. Otherwise they are silently ignored.

-y, --yes
    Assume yes when asked for confirmation before package installation.

ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg upgrade. See pkg.conf(5) for further description.

ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES

HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS

PKG_CACHEDIR

PKG_DBDIR

REPO_AUTOUPDATE

FILES
See pkg.conf(5).

SEE ALSO
pkg_printf(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-repository(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-backup(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-convert(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)