Another question about pkgng

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sat Nov 24 21:54:55 UTC 2012


On 24/11/2012 20:28, Walter Hurry wrote:
> When I issue 'pkg version -R' it does not actually use the remote 
> repository for comparison; instead it uses the local cache of the remote 
> repository, i.e. it checks local.sqlite against repo.sqlite.
> 
> That's fine, but should it not do a 'pkg update' first? 

That would be consistent with the way 'pkg upgrade' and 'pkg install'
behave, so personally I think that would be a yes.

Can you open an issue on Github so this point does not get forgotten please?

https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/issues

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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