Re: pkg install -f ... doesn't?

From: Gary Aitken <freebsd_at_dreamchaser.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:13:46 UTC 
On 1/23/25 11:15, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 23/01/2025 à 18:47, Gary Aitken a écrit :

>> I tried security/py-certbot-apache after checking freshports, 
>> which says: To add the package, run one of these commands:
>>          pkg install security/py-certbot-apache
>>          pkg install py311-certbot-apache
>> 
>> Why is the "security/" required?
> 
> with the security you specify the port. You can see it installs
> py311-* packages that means packages compiled fotr Python3.11 which
> is the crurrent version. By specifying py39-* you forced packages
> made for python 3.9 which do not exist anymore in the repositories.

But I didn't specify py39 when I tried again the first time;
I only specified py:

>> # pkg install py-certbot-apache
>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
>> All repositories are up to date.
>> pkg: No packages available to install matching 'py-certbot-apache' have been found in the repositories