Unknown message from "pkg version"

Lorenzo Salvadore phascolarctos at protonmail.ch
Tue Sep 18 11:47:30 UTC 2018


On Tuesday 18 September 2018 12:26, Carmel NY <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:

> I ran the command "pkg version -vL=" this morning and received this output:
>
> re2-20180801 < needs updating (index has 20180901)

It means that the port devel/re2 can be updated from ports. You can do
the update as follows:

cd /usr/ports/devel/re2
make clean build && make deinstall install && make clean

More precisely, the < symbol means that your installed version is less recent
then the available one, which is 20180901.

Lorenzo Salvadore.


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