pkgng doesn't upgrade if old package exists (Was: Re: libfreetype.so.9 errors)

[Melvyn Sopacua]

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Apr 2014, Beeblebrox wrote:

> I have read UPDATING, and it does not apply to my situation since I do a
> full poudriere run of all ports on the system before each "# pkg upgrade -r
> myrepo". Recent freetype update (20140416) should therefore not cause any
> issue for me.

I may have stumbled upon the root cause.
pkg does not consider a package upgradeable if the old version of the
package still exists in the remote repository.

To reproduce:
- Bump a portrevision for a port
- Build it on your repository
- Run pkg repo on the repository
- Run pkg upgrade on the client machine

You will see "1 package updated", but pkg will not proceed to update it.
I don't know if poudriere cleans out stale versions, so it may not apply
to this after all.

--
Melvyn