Re: pkg upgrade with inverting match?

On Mar 19, 2026, at 7:29 am, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 19/03/2026 11:35, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
>> On 3/19/26 12:14, vermaden wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>>> You can upgrade only with specified 'FreeBSD-ports' and 'FreeBSD- ports-kmods' repos:
>>> 
>>> root@freebsd15:~ # pkg upg -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods
> 
> [..]
> 
>> Hi vermaden,
>> Oh yes, that does what I asked for. Thank you!
>> For completeness reasons I think it would be nice to add an option to
>> pkg to invert matches. Maybe it should invert -r as well!
> 
> First and most important (at least for me) would be a clear separation of base system upgrades from 3rd packages, without having to enter 40-character-long arguments.


The "pkg" command allows you to define aliases in pkg.conf.  So, if you wanted to save on typing, you could, say, define "base-upgrade" and "ports-upgrade" aliases to restrict "pkg upgrade" to just the appropriate repositories.

Cheers,

Paul.