pkg 1.5.1 wants to remove locked packages

[Henry Hu]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:18 PM Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> I can also confirm this problem.
> Although in my case the packages are not locked still it's not nice for
> pkg to
> remove them:
>
> $ pkg upgrade
> ...
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> Checking for upgrades (946 candidates): 100%
> Processing candidates (946 candidates): 100%
> The following 705 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): <<<< [*]
>
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>         libreoffice-4.3.5_2
>         digikam-3.5.0_6,2
>         kipi-plugin-calendar-3.5.0_3
>         kipi-plugins-3.5.0_3,1
>

Using "pkg search", you can see that these packages are not present in the
repo currently. Maybe pkg finds that it can't find updated version so it
can only remove them?

>
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
> ...
>
> I mean I can reinstall libreoffice, digikam and others after pkg is done,
> but I
> shouldn't have to do that.  If the solver sees a need to remove some
> packages it
> should take care to install them back.
>
> [*] Unrelated: 705 out of 0 looks confusing.
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
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