Strange outcome: different outcomes from portmaster and pkg upgrade

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 21:09:41 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I normally build my ports using portmaster. ( Old habits die hard.)
> 
> Recently, I've been having problems with a handful of ports failing to 
> upgrade. So, I've been fixing those ports by using pkg upgrade.
> 
> When I run portmaster, it says I have three ports to upgrade. When I run 
> pkg upgrade, it says everything is up to date.
> 
> ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
>          Upgrade cups-2.2.12 to cups-2.2.13
>          Upgrade gnutls-3.6.11.1 to gnutls-3.6.12
>          Upgrade ffmpeg-4.2.1_4,1 to ffmpeg-4.2.2_7,1
> 
> ===>>> Proceed? y/n [y] n
> 
> 
> ===>>> If you would like to upgrade or install some, but not
>         all of the above try adding '-i' to the command line.
> [root at colo11 ~]# pkg upgrade cups
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> Your packages are up to date.
> 
> It does the same for gnutls, but then I get a different result for ffmpeg.
> 
> [root at colo11 ~]# pkg upgrade ffmpeg
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> The following 4 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> 
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>          aom: 1.0.0.2873
>          dav1d: 0.5.2_1
>          opus: 1.3.1
> 
> Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>          ffmpeg: 4.2.1_4,1 -> 4.2.2,1
> 
> Number of packages to be installed: 3
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
> 
> The process will require 10 MiB more space.
> 18 MiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
> 
> What's going on here?

Are your ports tree and pkg source out of sync?
WHich repository do you use for pkg (quarterly / latest)?
How do you obtain a current ports tree (svn / portsnap)?
Maybe there is still some cached database fragment?


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