pkg must be version 1.3.8 or greater

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/23/14 01:44, Ruben Schade wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Running FreeBSD amd64 10.0-RELEAESE-p9. Installed everything from pkg, 
> very nice system.
>
> Prefer building nginx from ports, so portsnapped the latest tree and 
> did the usual:
>
> > # cd /usr/ports/www/nginx
> > # make install clean
>
> Got the following error:
>
> ===>  nginx-1.6.2,2 pkg(8) must be version 1.3.8 or greater, but you 
> have 1.3.7. You must upgrade pkg(8) first.
>
> Running pkg update however:
>
> > FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> > All repositories are up-to-date.
>
> And pkg upgrade:
>
> > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> > FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> > All repositories are up-to-date.
> > Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100%
> > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> > Your packages are up to date.
>
> Fairly new to pkgng, could that "1 candidates" line be the updated pkg 
> I need in waiting?
>
> Thanks,
> Ruben
>

The portsnap messes with pkg's logic about what needs upgrading & what 
doesn't, there have been other posts on this topic over the last several 
weeks (notably from me) .... Ports & Pkg's are usually updated by the 
maintainers about weekly, ports often/usually on Wednesday, Pkg's on 
Saturday. My experience is that if you wait until Saturday, your 
'pkg-upgrade' will work as desired & you will be off to the races. 
Alternatively, you can 'pkg install -yf ....' your pkg & move on 
immediately .... In general, for me, you should do any pkg-upgrades 
*before* you mess w/ ports. $0.02, no more no less ....


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