Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 08:29:16 -0300 From: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> To: Yuri <yuri@FreeBSD.org>, "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Why does 'pkg install -A xx' reinstall pkg? Message-ID: <dec9cef4-ff28-4932-948c-d2be1a861c83@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <badc5369-dca7-4fd5-b1f3-c53f4bb7f60d@FreeBSD.org> References: <0d254498-0783-4394-982a-8c126220d166@FreeBSD.org> <badc5369-dca7-4fd5-b1f3-c53f4bb7f60d@FreeBSD.org>
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On 03/06/24 08:21, Renato Botelho wrote: > On 02/06/24 17:50, Yuri wrote: >> I saw it many times how 'pkg install -A xx' reinstalls pkg: >> >> >> > Installed packages to be REINSTALLED: >> >> > pkg-1.21.3 >> >> >> >> >> It doesn't explain the reason. >> >> >> Why is such operation ever needed? >> >> >> The package version doesn't change, and there are no dependencies that >> change, so why does it need to reinstall pkg? >> > > Do you have multiple pkg repositories on this system? I've been seeing > this behavior to happen for years when more than one repository is > configured. > > We always had 2 repositories on pfSense and it was not something trivial > to see on FreeBSD systems, but nowadays with pkgbase it's becoming more > common so I guess more people will see it happening. I just found the issue report I opened back in 2017 https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1613 Someone mentioned about having more than one repo at #bsdports years ago. -- Renato Botelho
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