persisting pkg questions ....

Brian W. brian at brianwhalen.net
Tue Sep 2 17:18:24 UTC 2014


That reply was erroneous, I have been spending too much time in front of
Linux boxes lately..


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Brian W. <brian at brianwhalen.net> wrote:

> 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 ....
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>         William A. Mahaffey III
>>
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>>
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