Cannot upgrade from custom repo

[Dan Langille]

> On Nov 20, 2015, at 3:13 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 20/11/2015 03:12, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> That is annoying.  Looks like the error message is telling you the wrong
>>>> reason about why pkg(8) doesn't want to upgrade mysql56-server.
>>>> 
>>>> What do you get if you tell pkg(8) to plan an upgrade of everything?
>>>> ie. what does 'pkg upgrade -n' produce?  I wonder if there's a conflict
>>>> somewhere that's making pkg(8) want to install a different version of
>>>> mysql or some such.
> 
>> $ sudo pkg upgrade -n
>> Updating local repository catalogue...
>> local repository is up-to-date.
>> All repositories are up-to-date.
>> Checking for upgrades (11 candidates): 100%
>> Processing candidates (11 candidates): 100%
>> The following 10 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
>> 
>> Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>> 	perl5: 5.18.4_17 -> 5.20.3_8
>> 
>> Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
>> 	pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.2_1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	p5-Proc-WaitStat-1.00_1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	p5-MIME-Types-2.12 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	p5-MIME-Base64-3.15 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	p5-IPC-Signal-1.00_1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	nagios-plugins-2.1.1_3,1 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	mime-construct-1.11_2 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	logcheck-1.3.17 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 	aspell-0.60.6.1_5 (direct dependency changed: perl5)
>> 
>> The operation will free 494 KiB.
>> 14 MiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Hmmm... So your repo has perl5-5.20.x but your machine is still on 5.18.x?
> 
> On my own machine:
> 
> % pkg info -dr mysql56-server
> mysql56-server-5.6.27
> Depends on     :
> 	mysql56-client-5.6.27
> 	perl5-5.22.0_4
> 
> mysql server has a dependency on perl5, so pkg(8) should be proposing to
> upgrade perl5 as part of the update of mysql56-server.
> 
> Is there any reason you can't upgrade perl5 on this machine?  I've a
> feeling doing that will help.  Or if you can't upgrade perl5, how about
> changing the default version back to 5.18 in your repo?  Perl is one of
> those packages that (almost) everything depends on, and pkg(8) will find
> it difficult to handle updates if it can't bring perl up to the version
> all the other packages in the repo are expecting.

I can do that:

[root at zuul-mysql:~] # pkg upgrade perl5
Updating local repository catalogue...
local 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:
	perl5: 5.18.4_17 -> 5.20.3_8

The operation will free 494 KiB.
13 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[zuul-mysql.vpn.unixathome.org] Fetching perl5-5.20.3_8.txz: 100%   13 MiB   4.6MB/s    00:03    
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[zuul-mysql.vpn.unixathome.org] [1/1] Upgrading perl5 from 5.18.4_17 to 5.20.3_8...
[zuul-mysql.vpn.unixathome.org] [1/1] Extracting perl5-5.20.3_8: 100%
Message from perl5-5.20.3_8:
The /usr/bin/perl symlink has been removed starting with Perl 5.20.
For shebangs, you should either use:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

or

#!/usr/bin/env perl

The first one will only work if you have a /usr/local/bin/perl,
the second will work as long as perl is in PATH.

[root at zuul-mysql:~] # pkg info -x mysql56-client
mysql56-client-5.6.27

[root at zuul-mysql:~] # pkg install mysql56-client
Updating local repository catalogue...
local repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The most recent version of packages are already installed
[root at zuul-mysql:~] # 

FYI, someone tried working with repo, and they were able to 
install mysql56 5.6.27 from my repo; they succeeded: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cannot-upgrade-pkg-from-custom-repo.54080/#post-304454

That tells me it's an issue wth the box, not with the repo.  Agreed?

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/