Packages not updated?

[Lorenzo Salvadore]

> So I just saw another post on this list that mentioned the "pkg version -vL="
> command. Now, I've got a /usr/ports tree used by poudriere and run on the
> same machine. I svn updated my /usr/ports and kicked off poudriere. When it
> was done I ran "pkg upgrade". But the "pkg version -vL=" still shows this:
>
> py27-ndg_httpsclient-0.4.2 < needs updating (port has 0.5.1)
> py27-pbr-1.8.1_1 < needs updating (port has 3.1.1)
> py27-pip-9.0.1 < needs updating (port has 9.0.3)
> py27-psutil-5.2.2 < needs updating (port has 5.4.7)
> py27-pyasn1-0.2.2 < needs updating (port has 0.4.2)
> py27-python2-pythondialog-3.4.0 < needs updating (port has 3.4.0_1)
> py27-werkzeug-0.12.2 < needs updating (port has 0.14.1)
> transmission-web-2.93_1 < needs updating (port has 2.94)
>
> The question is: why are these packages not getting upgraded when I run
> pkg upgrade?
>
> And, yes, pkg version is getting its info from my poudriere server. I'm
> looking at the web server logs in real time.
>
> Any ideas?

pkg upgrade is for upgrading packages and not ports, but pkg version is comparing
your version against the versions of the port tree, not of the package repository.

To compare against the package repository, use the -R flag:

pkg version -RvL=

Lorenzo Salvadore.