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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: sindrome <sindrome@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: pkgng vs. portupgrade reporting ports outdated
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, sindrome wrote:
> From: Warren Block [mailto:wblock@wonkity.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 9:23 PM
> To: sindrome
> Cc: 'Robert Huff'; ports@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: pkgng vs. portupgrade reporting ports outdated
>
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, sindrome wrote:
>
>> There is a major inconsistency with what pkg_version -v says is
>> outdated and what pkgng says.
>
> Of course.  pkg_version looks at the text files in /var/db/pkg, while pkg
> looks at the database local.sqlite in that directory.  The first step in
> using pkg is running pkg2ng, which imports the old information from the text
> files into the sqlite table.  After that, pkg_version should not be used.
> It's getting information from an outdated database.
>
>
> So now the way to keep ports up-to-date is to execute 'pkg update' and 'pkg
> upgrade'?
>
> Are you saying I shouldn't svn update the ports tree anymore?

No, I did not say that.

By switching from the old pkg_* tools to pkg, all you have done is 
changed which database is being used to track what is installed. 
Nothing else needs to change.