Re: y to proceed, then nothing

On Oct 5, 2025, at 01:22, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:

> root@pkg:~ # env ABI=FreeBSD:16:amd64 pkg-static upgrade -fU
> 
> …
> 
>         xxhash-0.8.3 [FreeBSD]
>         yelp-42.3_2 [FreeBSD] (ABI changed: 'FreeBSD:14:amd64' -> 'FreeBSD:16:amd64')
>         yelp-xsl-42.4 [FreeBSD] (ABI changed: 'FreeBSD:14:*' -> 'FreeBSD:16:*')
>         ytnef-2.1.2,1 [FreeBSD] (ABI changed: 'FreeBSD:14:amd64' -> 'FreeBSD:16:amd64')
>         zenity-3.44.5 [FreeBSD] (ABI changed: 'FreeBSD:14:amd64' -> 'FreeBSD:16:amd64')
>         zstd-1.5.7 [FreeBSD]
>         zxing-cpp-2.3.0 [FreeBSD]
> 
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>         FreeBSD-clang: 14.3p4
> 
> Number of packages to be removed: 1
> Number of packages to be installed: 2
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 132
> Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1039
> Number of packages to be downgraded: 381
> 
> The operation will free 47 MiB.
> 32 MiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> root@pkg:~ #
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> That was, with the kernel upgraded and running; userland only partly upgraded.
> 
> I assume that nothing happened because only one repo was enabled at the time.
> 
> If anyone has a better guess, please let me know (I can compare with local notes, which I'll not share right now; they're potentially confusing). Thanks

[This may not be relevant.]

I see a mix of:

QUOTE
     -U, --no-repo-update
                 Suppress the automatic update of the local copy of the
                 repository catalogue from remote.  Automatic repository
                 catalogue updates are only attempted when the effective UID
                 of the process has write access to the package database.
                 Otherwise they are silently ignored.
END QUOTE

and:

QUOTE
32 MiB to be downloaded.
END QUOTE

So the repository catalog would not have been updated
for the download if the download had happened?

It leads me to wonder if it ended up in a status of
"can not do as requested overall" but just did not
explicitly report anything about that status.


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Mark Millard
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