pkg autoremove, pkg upgrade, spice-gtk and spice-protocol

[Graham Perrin]

Can anyone explain the autoremove and upgrade behaviours below?


root at momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # pkg autoremove
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 2 packages:

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
         spice-gtk: 0.37
         spice-protocol: 0.12.15

Number of packages to be removed: 2

The operation will free 3 MiB.

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Deinstalling spice-gtk-0.37...
[1/2] Deleting files for spice-gtk-0.37: 100%
[2/2] Deinstalling spice-protocol-0.12.15...
[2/2] Deleting files for spice-protocol-0.12.15: 100%
root at momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating poudriere repository catalogue...
poudriere repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (19 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (19 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
         spice-gtk: 0.37 [FreeBSD]
         spice-protocol: 0.12.15 [FreeBSD]

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
         libebml-1.3.10 [FreeBSD]

Number of packages to be installed: 2
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1

The process will require 3 MiB more space.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/3] Installing spice-protocol-0.12.15...
[1/3] Extracting spice-protocol-0.12.15: 100%
[2/3] Installing spice-gtk-0.37...
[2/3] Extracting spice-gtk-0.37: 100%
[3/3] Reinstalling libebml-1.3.10...
[3/3] Extracting libebml-1.3.10: 100%
root at momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # pkg autoremove
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 2 packages:

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
         spice-gtk: 0.37
         spice-protocol: 0.12.15

Number of packages to be removed: 2

The operation will free 3 MiB.

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: n
root at momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ #