From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 23:11:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AE5F8C0 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 23:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x234.google.com (mail-qa0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 349A4812 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 23:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id dc16so660475qab.25 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:11:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=7xn0g7KSYGHBgHu1p/fYJr2Zci99UsYJRzwkgT/s6qs=; b=vVkVc+Fc6DLXquDP9mmDzXatWF9cLECs0EIXYAid4rkSeAiEynbx2ikySYqWQvoMLr VoY2X+qjXXsmddWtMwDRC5FxxylcRYVIjZ1K7JRFDqCLGAE5fyZ7TC2IrzPd/lYZKK9r 1ALLRdveD0AwtQ02uFE6t14mzATDziUbF5FIZC1wJHOclRNLlAg6TR2ZVliRPl2Tf1Cl YcCWt1gReMGQlRfhMOQB5T7vwSbtJpjuodgqwRWcmEWZ4lYiuZ/q8dLtBesWeTPMrkB3 rd0jq+RGeMW1fqZIKPuN/VNrIqfpwVcjyJK7rhBGw6gLH2yYu81n3/uVUIlj6+8LAUCZ JCGw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.136.72 with SMTP id q8mr33942161qat.31.1411773091271; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.28.68 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:11:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <542524EC.7030005@rewt.org.uk> References: <20140923083359.GA20383@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54213713.7020200@sorbs.net> <5423E8DE.5080606@rewt.org.uk> <542524EC.7030005@rewt.org.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:11:31 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: zoXgLIFdcVxAUAEHWaRp31nf0FY Message-ID: Subject: Re: pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available? From: Craig Rodrigues To: Joe Holden Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 23:11:32 -0000 On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Joe Holden wrote: > Not quite, in this case I was using pkg but tried to install one port as > there aren't any meta packages yet, it looks like the pkg repo has been > updated but it was a case of there only being 1.3.7 in the repo, ports > wanted 1.3.8 but 1.3.8 was the latest at the bootstrap url > > If that makes sense? > I think I understand. Bryan Drewery has improved the wording in one of the messages printed out by /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg/Makefile so hopefully that should make it easier for people to upgrade: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2014-September/073781.html I'm not 100% sure if it helps with your use case, but it does improve things a bit. -- Craig