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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:26:34 +0200 (EET)
From:      Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@nomadiclab.com>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Different output from pkg_version 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103200822180.3226-100000@ws140.nomadiclab.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103192047.f2JKlre07021@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

> DES is correct; the newer pkg_version (which uses the ORIGIN directive)
> is better able to make a determination about what's current.
> "up-to-date with index" in more recent versions of pkg_version is the
> equivalent of "up-to-date" in older versions (the ones that only checked
> the INDEX file).
>
> Martti, you didn't say why this was a problem for you...or was this
> just simple curiosity?

No, it's not a problem. It was little bit irritating though as I'm running
cvsup+pkg_version every night from cron to check my system...

I "fixed" the situation by manually adding ORIGIN lines to /var/db/pkg/*/
so I see no more false alarms :-)

Martti

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Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
http://www.iki.fi/~kuparine/


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