persisting pkg questions ....

[Brian W.]

Did you pkg update first?
On Sep 2, 2014 8:49 AM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:

>
>
> .... I am still having problems getting pkg to upgrade as I think it
> should based on my read of the man page:
>
>
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:45:18am] 547 %  pkg version -vIL=
> curl-7.37.1_2                      <   needs updating (index has 7.37.1_3)
> dri-7.6.1_4,2                      <   needs updating (index has 9.1.7_4,2)
> gtk2-2.24.22_3                     <   needs updating (index has 2.24.22_4)
> libGL-7.6.1_4                      <   needs updating (index has 9.1.7_1)
> libdrm-2.4.17_1,1                  <   needs updating (index has 2.4.52,1)
> libyaml-0.1.6                      <   needs updating (index has 0.1.6_1)
> pango-1.34.1_6                     <   needs updating (index has 1.34.1_7)
> portmaster-3.17.6                  <   needs updating (index has 3.17.7)
> readline-6.3.6_1                   <   needs updating (index has 6.3.8)
> xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_8           <   needs updating (index has 2.21.15_3)
> xorg-server-1.7.7_13,1             <   needs updating (index has
> 1.12.4_8,1)
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:45:30am] 548 %  pkg version -vRL=
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> db46-4.6.21.4                      ?   orphaned: databases/db46
> linux-f10-expat-2.0.1              ?   orphaned: textproc/linux-f10-expat
> linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0         ?   orphaned:
> x11-fonts/linux-f10-fontconfig
> linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1          ?   orphaned: x11/linux-f10-xorg-libs
> opera-linuxplugins-12.16           ?   orphaned: www/opera-linuxplugins
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:45:43am] 549 %  pkg upgrade
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> Checking for upgrades (256 candidates): 100%
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> Your packages are up to date.
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:17am] 550 %
>
>
>
> 1st command seems to show some pkg's w/ upgrades available, but the 'pkg
> upgrade' command does nothing .... The man page pretty explicitly implies
> that the 'pkg upgrade' command will upgrade anything needing upgrading. Am
> I supposed to list the pkg's returned by the 1st command (*not at all*
> intuitive, nor obvious from man page, which seems to imply the opposite) ?
> Explicitly fetch them myself (also *not* intuitive, not implied in man
> page) ? pkg bug ? pilot error ? TIA for any help ....
>
>
>
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>
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