Disclaimer: I am not a pkg tools expert, so if somebody comes along
and correct me (especially espie@) then they are right.

2010/4/10 Andreas Gerdd <kryptosnet@gmail.com>:
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> I follow stable tree, OPENBSD_4_6 branch. I'd like to update some of
> my packages.
> As an example,
> # pkg_add -unvi tiff
> gives the following message; 'No need to update tiff-3.8.2p4'

This message is pkg_add searching for package matches in $PKG_PATH and
not finding any that are newer than the one installed.

Note that once a match for the package stem is found (the tiff- part)
then the search stops at that point and it won't look for matches in
the rest of the $PKG_PATH.  So if you want to put your -stable ports
along with a -release mirror you need to put
/usr/ports/packages/i386/all first in the $PKG_PATH.

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> but my /usr/ports (OPENBSD_4_6) has tiff-3.8.2p5.
> After running 'make package' inside ./graphics/tiff,
> i got the binary file tiff-3.8.2p5.tgz from /usr/ports/packages/i386/all
> and i replaced the old tiff package with that one by doing pkg_add
> -rvi ./tiff-3.8.2p5.tgz
>
> I wonder if that would create any problem.
> As the system says 'No need to update tiff-3.8.2p4'. (I know that its
> already the latest one from packages)
> but i still update them to higher versions with my stable ports binaries.
>
> I had to do the same for my php5 package too, (from php5-core-5.2.10
> to php5-core-5.2.12)
> Because i was getting httpd segfault crashes (suhosin?) with the
> latest stable php5 package. (php5-core-5.2.10)
>
> Is this a mistake? Is it ok to replace an installed package with a
> higher version of it from the ports?

Normally, as long as you do not use -F <something> as an option to
pkg_add, everything you do with it is safe.  (caveat: sometimes there
are major upgrades, like for postgresql that require extra actions,
but those are when you change releases)

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> Thanks.
>

Arnaud