pkg must be version 1.3.8 or greater

[Dale Scott]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of William A. Mahaffey III
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 5:58 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: pkg must be version 1.3.8 or greater
> 
> On 09/23/14 01:44, Ruben Schade wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Running FreeBSD amd64 10.0-RELEAESE-p9. Installed everything from pkg,
> > very nice system.
> >
> > Prefer building nginx from ports, so portsnapped the latest tree and
> > did the usual:
> >
> > > # cd /usr/ports/www/nginx
> > > # make install clean
> >
> > Got the following error:
> >
> > ===>  nginx-1.6.2,2 pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you
> > have 1.3.7. You must upgrade pkg(8) first.
> >
> > <snip>
> 
> The portsnap messes with pkg's logic about what needs upgrading & what
> doesn't, there have been other posts on this topic over the last several
weeks
> (notably from me) .... Ports & Pkg's are usually updated by the
maintainers
> about weekly, ports often/usually on Wednesday, Pkg's on Saturday. My
> experience is that if you wait until Saturday, your 'pkg-upgrade' will
work as
> desired & you will be off to the races.
> Alternatively, you can 'pkg install -yf ....' your pkg & move on
immediately .... In
> general, for me, you should do any pkg-upgrades
> *before* you mess w/ ports. $0.02, no more no less ....

Just deal with same for SquirrelMail. I had already installed SquirrelMail
as a binary package, but then realized the LDAP option wasn't turned on so
had to compile from ports (which is when I got the dreaded error "pkg(8)
must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7. You must upgrade
pkg(8) first.").

# pkg upgrade   (nothing)
# portsnap fetch update  (a few)
# pkg install portmaster
# portmaster pkg (equivalent of "pkg delete pkg-xxx" followed by "make
install clean", but wasn't sure about pkg deleting itself so used
portmaster)
# cd /usr/ports/mail/squirrelmail
# pkg delete squirrelmail
# make config
# make install clean
# pkg lock squirrelmail-20140717_1 (to prevent pkg in future from upgrading
squirrelmail using the default binary package and losing the LDAP option)

Regards,
Dale