persisting pkg questions ....

[Juan Ramón Molina Menor]

El 03/09/2014 15:07, William A. Mahaffey III escribió:
>
> On 09/03/14 02:11, Juan Ramón Molina Menor wrote:
>>>> Also, I have just seen that you have the new Xorg enabled (look at the
>>>> dri and libGL versions) but you seem to have not configured the recent
>>>> new_xorg package repository. If you wish to use packages instead of
>>>> ports you should enable it.
>>>>
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>>> Very well, how do I go about doing that ? Remember, noob, noob, noob :-)
>>> !!!! Thx & TIA ....
>>
>> Just use Google:
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22new_xorg%22+%22freebsd%22+%22repository%22
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> Thx, I will look into this, however it doesn't address my root problem
> of pkg failing to upgrade when I think I told it to do so & there are
> upgrades available ....

You are maybe wrongly assuming that there are upgraded packages 
available in the repositories. If, after a "portsnap fecth update", "pkg 
-vI" shows that some ports have been updated, it does not mean that the 
packages are already built and available for a "pkg upgrade" operation.