pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:02:11AM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
> 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.
> 

There are new feature, that is why, the required version will be only bumped
when there will be new features used by the ports tree, not on every pkg bump

regards,
Bapt
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