pkg upgrade does not?

[Christoph Brinkhaus]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 04:03:02PM -0400, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
> # pkg update
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> 
> # pkg upgrade
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> Checking for upgrades (169 candidates): 100%
> Processing candidates (169 candidates): 100%
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> Your packages are up to date.
> 
> But evidently "Your packages are up to date." is not a factual statement:
> 
> 
> # pkg version -vIL=
> atk-2.18.0                         <   needs updating (index has 2.24.0)
> bind911-9.11.0P5_1                 >   succeeds index (index has
> 9.11.0P3)
> ca_root_nss-3.30.1                 >   succeeds index (index has 3.30)
> dbus-1.10.14_2                     <   needs updating (index has 1.10.16)
> dbus-glib-0.104                    <   needs updating (index has 0.108)
> desktop-file-utils-0.22_4          <   needs updating (index has 0.23)
> glib-2.46.2_5                      <   needs updating (index has
> 2.50.2,1)
> gobject-introspection-1.46.0       <   needs updating (index has
> 1.50.0,1)
> gtk2-2.24.29_3                     <   needs updating (index has 2.24.31)
> libedit-3.1.20150325_2,1           <   needs updating (index has
> 3.1.20170329_2,1)
> llvm37-3.7.1_5                     ?   orphaned: devel/llvm37
> mysql56-client-5.6.35_3            <   needs updating (index has
> 5.6.35_4)
> pango-1.38.0_1                     <   needs updating (index has 1.40.4)
> perl5-5.24.1                       <   needs updating (index has
> 5.24.1_1)
> shared-mime-info-1.5               <   needs updating (index has 1.8)
> vim-8.0.0507                       <   needs updating (index has
> 8.0.0534)
> wget-1.19                          <   needs updating (index has 1.19.1)
> 
> What is happening here?

Hello James,

the index file in /usr/ports is not up to date.
Please cd to /usr/ports/ and do make fetchindex.
This will fetch the newest index file.

As far as I remember a make index gathers all information
out of your ports tree, too. But it takes a plenty of time
to complete the job.

Kind regards,
Christoph