pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available?

Florent Peterschmitt florent at peterschmitt.fr
Tue Sep 23 09:09:30 UTC 2014


Le 23/09/2014 11:02, Michelle Sullivan a écrit :
> Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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.
> 

What is the problem of upgrading the package manager first and then
upgrade the rest of the world without any problem?

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