Strange outcome: different outcomes from portmaster and pkg upgrade

[RW]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 15:25:31 -0600
Paul Schmehl wrote:

> On 3/5/20 6:24 AM, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
>  
> > Presumably your packages are up to date with the repository, but not
> > the ports tree.  
> 
> The ports tree is updated daily through a script in
> /etc/periodic/daily.
> 
> 
> [root at colo11 /usr/home/schmehl]# cat /etc/periodic/daily/190.portsnap
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/portsnap cron
> /usr/sbin/portsnap update
> ...
> I just ran it manually, but it didn't update any of the affected
> ports.

Packages are built from the ports tree, so can lag behind it. You have
to wait for the packages to catch up.