Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:53:53 -0400 From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> To: Patrick Gibson <gibblertron@gmail.com> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> Subject: Re: pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available? Message-ID: <CAKFCL4Vd26H-Ly4HUr-9Z%2B4_Vvy0HeLYiDveYm3kkrX5b2Rz5g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BdWbmZ-Dyfu3QjyizkWmEMRcbHihZY%2BHU4zbRcpR%2BLtEonzKw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAO82ECHfocf=c2=ShbdJSg7Y8sjbQNChNZexzn8XMW6zaPwp=g@mail.gmail.com> <20140923083359.GA20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54213713.7020200@sorbs.net> <CA%2BdWbmZ-Dyfu3QjyizkWmEMRcbHihZY%2BHU4zbRcpR%2BLtEonzKw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Patrick Gibson <gibblertron@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, I've found that the latest ports tree has 1.3.8 in ports-mgmt/pkg, so > I'm installing it from source. Still baffled why it wasn't working. Was it > not sent up to the official pkg servers? > I would guess that, since 1.3.8 needs to rebuild the package database, earlier versions of pkg can't safely install it? The port is likely special in that it uses the just-built pkg to install itself instead of relying on the installed one (otherwise you couldn't bootstrap-install pkg at all). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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