Unexplained pkg behavior and schema errors

[Rick Miller]

Thanks, Matthew...

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> > Observe also that pkg is upgraded, then downgraded, then upgraded again.
> > Is this the expected behavior or is it more likely that something else
> has
> > gone awry?  What possible circumstances would result in this behavior?
>
> OK.  What's happenned there is that you have snmpd in your repo with a
> dependency on an older version of pkg.  snmpd is one of very few
> packages that depends on pkg itself.  Try rebuilding the snmpd package
> and then have another go at upgrading.   Actually, if you have time, it
> might be one of those occasions where completely rebuilding all of the
> packages in your repo would pay off.  pkg works a lot better when all of
> the package versions tally with all of the dependencies across the
> available repos.
>

This feedback actually led me to identify an anomaly in one of the repos,
which was PEBCAK and has been resolved.

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Take care
Rick Miller