pkg versions don't match

[Carrion Crow]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:53:22AM -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Alberto Mijares <amijaresp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> > Try this:
> >
> > # pkg -f update
> >
> > and then try to install fail2ban again.
> >
> >
> >
> Alberto, thanks for the tip but -f says illegal option looked in man and it
> does not exist. This is a fresh 10.0-RELEASE install so it came with pkg
> preinstalled and no need for pkg2ng AFAICR. Anyway it was working just fine
> but it seems the versions in remote do not match the versions in my local
> pkgng database, even though it says is all up to date!
> 
> root at poseidon:/etc/pkg # pkg update
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> root at poseidon:/etc/pkg # pkg install py27-fail2ban
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> The following 6 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>         py27-fail2ban: 0.9.0_2
>         python27: 2.7.8_4
>         python2: 2_3
>         py27-setuptools27: 5.5.1
>         py27-sqlite3: 2.7.8_5
>         sqlite3: 3.8.6
> 
> The process will require 68 MB more space.
> 10 MB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> pkg:
> http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/py27-fail2ban-0.9.0_2.txz:
> Not Found

It should be:

pkg update -f

"-f" flag is for "update" option, not for pkg.

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