pkg wants to install packages it just autoremoved (and vice versa)

[Eitan Adler]

On 16 May 2018 at 22:28, Christopher Hall <christopherhall.hsw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Eitan,
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2018 21:32:20 -0700, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ping?
>>
>> On 12 May 2018 at 06:06, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> > Can anyone explain why pkg wants to both install and autoremove the
>> > same packages?
>> >
>
> When I had similar, it was because I tried to use both FreeBSD repo and
> my own repo.  Then a installed package from my local repo had a more
> recent version on FreeBSD repo, so the dependencies changed.  I ended
> up with machines that only use FreeBSD or only use local repo and have
> not seen this happen since.

I have the same setup but would like to understand *why* this is
happening. Shouldn't the poudriere package "win" if configured with
higher priority ?



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Eitan Adler