Strange outcome: different outcomes from portmaster and pkg upgrade

[RW]

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.

Presumably your packages are up to date with the repository, but not
the ports tree.