pkg install not installing latest version of package

Yuri Pankov yuripv at yuripv.net
Tue Aug 27 16:19:36 UTC 2019


James E Keenan wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 13.0 VM installed about a year ago.  I would like to 
> use this VM for ports development.  To that end, I would like to install 
> poudriere.  However, I am finding that 'pkg install' is not locating the 
> latest available version.
> 
> #####
> % uname -mrs
> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT amd64
> 
> % sudo pkg update
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> 
> % sudo pkg install poudriere
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
> 	poudriere: 3.3.2
> 	dialog4ports: 0.1.6
> 	freebsd-release-manifests: 20181211
> 
> Number of packages to be installed: 3
> 
> The process will require 2 MiB more space.
> 756 KiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> pkg: 
> http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/poudriere-3.3.2.txz: 
> Not Found
> #####
> 
> But when I go to http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/, I see:
> 
> #####
> poudriere-3.3.2_1.txz	742380	2019-Aug-19 13:30
> #####
> 
> ... which differs from the tarball "Not Found" only here:
> 
> #####
> poudriere-3.3.2.txz
> poudriere-3.3.2_1.txz
> #####
> 
> I would have expected 'pkg install' to be able to handle this 
> difference.  What I am not understanding?

Try forcefully updating the pkg db, i.e. `pkg update -f`.


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