Question on updating pkg

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 26 23:41:48 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:05:07PM +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 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
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This has been addressed by pkg 1.2, now the process initially asked for is
automatically restarted,

regards,
Bapt
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