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PKG-UPGRADE(8)		FreeBSD	System Manager's Manual		PKG-UPGRADE(8)

NAME
     pkg upgrade -- perform 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 reposito-
     ries.  Any	out of date packages are added to a work list for processing.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 de-
     pendencies	of packages matched as well while pkg-install(8) is more con-
     servative during dependencies upgrade.  Moreover, pkg upgrade will	not
     install new packages, except as required to fulfil	dependencies of	the
     packages listed on	the command line.  A caller should ensure that pat-
     terns 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	pack-
     ages are flagged as candidates for	autoremoval.  See pkg-autoremove(8)
     for details.

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

     Where a package on	the work list supplies a shared	library, and that li-
     brary 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 rein-
     stall 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 pack-
		 ages that should be upgraded and detect possible conflicts.

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

     -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) ex-
		 ist 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, un-
		 less 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	repos-
		 itory 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.

     -x, --regex
		 Treat the package names as regular expressions	according to
		 the "modern" or "extended" syntax of re_format(7).

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

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

     DEFAULT_ALWAYS_YES

     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-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5),
     pkg-script(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-alias(8),
     pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-backup(8),
     pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(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)

FreeBSD	13.0			 May 14, 2019			  FreeBSD 13.0

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