pkg 1.3.X changed behaviour with pkg -fR xxx

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 06:58:26 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 08:45:32PM -0300, sergio lenzi wrote:
> > see the sequence of commands
> >
> >  pkg info -qr db6
> > results....
> >     redland-1.0.17_3
> >     serf-1.3.6_1
> >     subversion-1.8.9_7
> >     apr-1.5.1.1.5.3_3
> >     squidGuard-1.4_9
> >     cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.26_1
> >     evolution-data-server-2.32.1_11
> >     bogofilter-1.2.4_2
> > =============================
> > Now the command....
> >
> > pkg install -fR db6
> >
> >
> >
> > Updating repository catalogue
> > DIST64 repository is up-to-date
> > All repositories are up-to-date
> > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> > The following 1 packages will be affected (of 1037 checked):
> >
> > Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
> >       db6-6.1.19 (forced reinstall)
> > ===========================
> > look that it will reinstall db6 (which is correct)
> > but not will reinstall the other packages as the manual says so...
> >
> > Another missing thing is that pkg upgrade
> > will not reinstall the packages that changed options or
> > that changed direct dependencies (as pkg 1.2.X did)...
> >
> > Is it normal or a bug??
> >
> This is a bug can you open a ticket on github?
>
> regards,
> Bapt
>

Wouldn't the FreeBSD bugzilla be a better place?
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com


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