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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:57:50 -0500
From:      Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unexplained pkg behavior and schema errors
Message-ID:  <CAHzLAVEL-O=S3=iQtqBuyXarrOSNNdFcvLSqeXbxVwmuDwv=Og@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <568EC8E1.6010005@FreeBSD.org>
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Thanks, Matthew...

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> > Observe also that pkg is upgraded, then downgraded, then upgraded again.
> > Is this the expected behavior or is it more likely that something else
> has
> > gone awry?  What possible circumstances would result in this behavior?
>
> OK.  What's happenned there is that you have snmpd in your repo with a
> dependency on an older version of pkg.  snmpd is one of very few
> packages that depends on pkg itself.  Try rebuilding the snmpd package
> and then have another go at upgrading.   Actually, if you have time, it
> might be one of those occasions where completely rebuilding all of the
> packages in your repo would pay off.  pkg works a lot better when all of
> the package versions tally with all of the dependencies across the
> available repos.
>

This feedback actually led me to identify an anomaly in one of the repos,
which was PEBCAK and has been resolved.

-- 
Take care
Rick Miller



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