pkg versions don't match

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 12/19/14 03:53, 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
>
> Best,
>

make that 'pkg update -f' instead .... most options are specific to the 
command & occur after it .... $0.02 ....

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