pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available?

[Michelle Sullivan]

Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>
>> root:/tmp # portupgrade -nr dbus
>> --->  Session started at: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:08:37 +0200
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/dbus:
>>         pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7.
>> You must upgrade pkg(8) first
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/eggdbus:
>>         pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7.
>> You must upgrade pkg(8) first
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: sysutils/policykit:
>>         pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7.
>> You must upgrade pkg(8) first
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/gconf2:
>>         pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7.
>> You must upgrade pkg(8) first
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/dbus-glib:
>>         pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7.
>> You must upgrade pkg(8) first
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: sysutils/polkit:
>>         pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7.
>> You must upgrade pkg(8) first
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/dconf:
>>         pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you have 1.3.7.
>> You must upgrade pkg(8) first
>> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>>         - devel/dbus (marked as IGNORE)
>>         - devel/eggdbus (marked as IGNORE)
>>         - sysutils/policykit (marked as IGNORE)
>>         - devel/gconf2 (marked as IGNORE)
>>         - devel/dbus-glib (marked as IGNORE)
>>         - sysutils/polkit (marked as IGNORE)
>>         - devel/dconf (marked as IGNORE)
>> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 7 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed
>> --->  Session ended at: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:08:37 +0200 (consumed 00:00:00)
>>
>> root:/tmp # portupgrade pkg
>>
>> root:/tmp # pkg upgrade pkg
>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
>> All repositories are up-to-date.
>> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
>> Your packages are up to date.
>>
>> root:/tmp #
>>
>> what am I missing?
>>     
>
> You are using portupgrade so first upgrade pkg with portupgrade
>
>   

Just a thought here - why (like .rpm and .deb - and the reason I hate
them so much) are you making the package manager version a dependency of
a package?  I can understand if there are new features that you may need
to use a later version to get those features, but making a package
dependent on the package manager rather than displaying a warning that a
feature is missing is the brain dead way that plagues upgrades for
redhat and debian.  Of course if your intent is to make FreeBSD into
another Linux distro just with a different kernel, continue.

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/