Cannot upgrade from custom repo

[Dan Langille]

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 19/11/2015 22:12, Dan Langille wrote:
>> See above and:
>> 
>> # pkg upgrade -r local mysql56-server
>> Updating local repository catalogue...
>> local repository is up-to-date.
>> All repositories are up-to-date.
>> pkg: No packages available to upgrade matching 'mysql56-server' have been found in the repositories
> 
> That is annoying.  Looks like the error message is telling you the wrong
> reason about why pkg(8) doesn't want to upgrade mysql56-server.
> 
> What do you get if you tell pkg(8) to plan an upgrade of everything?
> ie. what does 'pkg upgrade -n' produce?  I wonder if there's a conflict
> somewhere that's making pkg(8) want to install a different version of
> mysql or some such.

$ sudo pkg upgrade -n
Updating local repository catalogue...
local repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
Checking for upgrades (11 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (11 candidates): 100%
The following 10 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
	perl5: 5.18.4_17 -> 5.20.3_8

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
	pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.2_1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	p5-Proc-WaitStat-1.00_1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	p5-MIME-Types-2.12 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	p5-MIME-Base64-3.15 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	p5-IPC-Signal-1.00_1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	nagios-plugins-2.1.1_3,1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	mime-construct-1.11_2 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	logcheck-1.3.17 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
	aspell-0.60.6.1_5 (direct dependency changed: perl5)

The operation will free 494 KiB.
14 MiB to be downloaded.

> You shouldn't need to specify '-r local' all the time -- pkg remembers
> what repo a package came from initially, and will prefer to upgrade it
> from the same place.  It can't /always/ do that but I find it's been
> pretty reliable at it for many months now.

Thanks.

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Dan Langille
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