Question on updating pkg

[Michael Gmelin]

Maybe this has been answered before, but I stumbled over it numerous
times:

When pkg needs an update, it's performed first and pkg exits just ok,
but the original action wouldn't be done. This is a little bit
confusing when running it manually and potentially harmfully in a
scripted context.

Thanks,
Michael


Example:
$ sudo pkg install git
Updating repository catalogue
digests.txz
 100%  996KB 996.1KB/s 996.1KB/s   00:01
 packagesite.txz
 100% 5555KB   5.4MB/s   3.8MB/s   00:01 Incremental update completed,
 0 packages processed: 11200 packages updated, 709 removed and 135
 added. New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first.
 After this upgrade it is recommended that you do a full upgrade using:
 'pkg upgrade'

The following 1 packages will be installed:

        Upgrading pkg: 1.1.4_8 -> 1.1.4_10

The installation will require 2 kB more space

1 MB to be downloaded

Proceed with installing packages [y/N]: y
pkg-1.1.4_10.txz
100% 1649KB   1.6MB/s   1.6MB/s   00:01 Checking integrity... done
[1/1] Upgrading pkg from 1.1.4_8 to 1.1.4_10... done

$ git
bash: git: command not found

-- 
Michael Gmelin