Re: pkg upgrade odity

On 29/04/2024 12:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> pkg wants to remove some package on upgrade. I do not understand why...
> ---snip---
> # pkg upgrade
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> Fetching meta.conf: 100%    178 B   0.2kB/s    00:01
> Fetching data.pkg: 100%  130 KiB 133.5kB/s    00:01
> Processing entries: 100%
> FreeBSD repository update completed. 467 packages processed.
> All repositories are up to date.
> Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100%
> Processing candidates (1 candidates): 100%
> The following 4 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>          mosh: 1.4.0_2
>          netdata: 1.43.2_1
>          protobuf: 24.4,1
> 
> Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>          rsync: 3.2.7_1 -> 3.3.0
> 
> Number of packages to be removed: 3
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
> 
> The operation will free 55 MiB.
> 405 KiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: n
> ---snip---
> 
> If I do this instead, it is doing what I expect the former command to do:
> ---snip---
> # pkg upgrade mosh netdata protobuf rsync
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>          rsync: 3.2.7_1 -> 3.3.0
> 
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
> 
> 405 KiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
> ---snip---
> 
> Any ideas why it wants to remove those packages in the first case?


I see similar behavior from time to time. Last time (a few days ago) pkg 
wanted to uninstall about 30 packages when I tried to install Signal 
Desktop (I tried to install another package without any dependencies, 
but pkg behaves the same). I didn't have time to solve it, I just left 
it alone. The second day (after reboot) everything worked normally and 
pkg installed only Signal Desktop, no other dependencies/libraries were 
affected.

And similarly, pkg during 'pkg upgrade' installed several packages, 
which after completing 'pkg upgrade' again uninstalled by command 'pkg 
autoremove' (I remember mate-desktop, which I don't use at all, I use 
KDE Plasma) It was right before I tried to install Signal Desktop.


Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman