pkg must be version 1.3.8 or greater

[Dale Scott]

> On Sep 24, 2014, at 3:44 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller at hostileadmin.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Ruben Schade <newsgroups at rubenschade.com>
> 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.
>> 
>> Running pkg update however:
>> 
>>> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
>>> All repositories are up-to-date.
>> 
>> And pkg upgrade:
>> 
>>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>>> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
>>> All repositories are up-to-date.
>>> Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100%
>>> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
>>> Your packages are up to date.
>> 
>> Fairly new to pkgng, could that "1 candidates" line be the updated pkg I
>> need in waiting?
> 
> 
> 
> Scenarios like this are the reason I've deployed and been using Poudriere
> to build private repos because intermingling the two systems has proven to
> introduce numerous challenges through my own experiences and observations
> on a number of mailing lists.

I respectfully disagree that combining the two is unworkable, although I am only dealing with two apps built from ports (and 20'ish from binary packages).

> It is simple to setup a system to build private repos with Poudriere, but
> one doesn't even need Poudriere to do it.  A private repo is as simple to
> build as building the packages via Ports, copying them to your repo
> directory, and running `pkg repo` on it.

That's not as hard as I thought, but still more steps. If I hit the wall with my simple strategy I'll try yours.

Dale