[Bug 296467] pkg upgrade installs unrelated, unnecessary other packages

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296467

--- Comment #11 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to wbe from comment #10)

For:

-  pkg upgrade -f $(pkg ... | grep ...)
+  pkg upgrade -f `pkg ... | grep  ...`

Both notations are valid in /bin/sh . In scripts I normally
use $(...) but interactively I tend to use `...` unless
nesting is involved.


Glad things are working. Sorry for the various typos.


"You're welcom to keep this open . . .":

I cannot change the status of your bugzilla submittals. You
can close it at will. The material here could be referenced
in another bugzilla submittal if needed. One has to get into
the comments sufficiently to actually learn the type of
context at issue: likely confusing.


A note:

While various pkg commands by default do an implicit "pkg
update" to get the information about the upstream status of
the upstream repository, if such a pkg update for the local
repository (explicit or implicit) does not happen, pkg then
works based on the local possibly-out-of-date information
when dealing with that specific local repository.

Thus it is possible to have 2 local repositories that point
to the same upstream repository but that disagree about the
status of the upstream repository: "pkg update" for just one
local repository will not update the status recorded in the
other local repository.

It is generally best to avoid having multiple local
repositories referencing the same upstream repository
--instead of trying to keep the 2 or more local "pkg update"
status's synchronized because of having a common upstream
repository.

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