pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Patrick Gibson <gibblertron at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Okay, I've found that the latest ports tree has 1.3.8 in ports-mgmt/pkg, so
> I'm installing it from source. Still baffled why it wasn't working. Was it
> not sent up to the official pkg servers?
>

I would guess that, since 1.3.8 needs to rebuild the package database,
earlier versions of pkg can't safely install it? The port is likely special
in that it uses the just-built pkg to install itself instead of relying on
the installed one (otherwise you couldn't bootstrap-install pkg at all).

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