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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:07:36 -0400
From:      <scratch65535@att.net>
To:        Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Cc:        Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gtkmm30 package install failed: size mismatch
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Thanks, Manish.  Very non-standard syntax, that.

So evidently when pkg claims that the repositories are current,
as it did, it may be, in effect, lying.   

Which suggests that *it* should be doing the forced update as
step 3 in its attempt to get good bits.

[sigh]


[Default] On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:43:17 +0000, Manish Jain
<bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>On 08/28/17 16:58, scratch65535@att.net wrote:
>> [Default] On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:08:05 +0200, Jan Beich
>> <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Try running: pkg update -f
>> 
>> Are you thinking of something else, perhaps?  The man page
>> doesn't show an -f switch, and pkg thinks the repositories were
>> already current, which is why (I suppose) it tried a remote
>> fetch.  What am I missing here?
>
>Hi, You have to look at `man pkg-update`
>
>-f is arg for update, not pkg
>
>Regards
>Manish Jain
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