Another question about pkgng

Walter Hurry walterhurry at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 00:03:14 UTC 2012


On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:54:50 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> 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
> 
Thanks, Matthew. Done - Issue #396



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