On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, at 11:37, Chris Bennett wrote: > > You haven't supplied any information for answering this question well. > Are you running -current and updating to a new snapshot? >
I upgraded to a new snapshot. > Easy answer. System libraries that these packages were built with have > changed. Package is the same except for being rebuilt with newer > libraries. > This demonstrates that I don’t understand the mechanism by which these upgrade decisions are made then. How can pkg_add determine that a given package was built against newer libraries if there is nothing in the package header (+CONTENTS) indicating such? I assumed this would manifest itself in the package signature in some way, since pkg_add is clearly making an upgrade decision here. Or there is of course the possibility that there *is* some information there that I’m overlooking. > Are you upgrading to a newer stable/release? > Same answer. > > Are you getting this problem running pkg_add -u multiple times on the > same system without changing to a newer version or snapshot? > > Then something is wrong. (Assumimg you are actually running the actual > pkg_add -u) > Check to make sure that you do not have any packages that have been > since dropped. gettext caused me problems a good while back > > Please supply a little more info. That helps people to decide whether > they want to answer or not. Most likely you don't have any problem. > Have you read all of the relevant man pages? pkg_* > Multiple times. My problem is that the documentation appears to be written for a user of OpenBSD, not necessarily someone trying to fully grok the inner workings of exactly how the pkg_* tools work. I’ve tried reading the perl directly, but I haven’t found anything that seemed like a smoking gun. I guess what I want to know is, what *exactly* is pkg_add doing/comparing to determine that an upgrade is needed? > What is your PKG_PATH (if using). unset PKG_PATH is a quickie, temp fix > if it's wrong. > Have you changed /etc/installurl? > No PKG_PATH. /etc/installurl is ftp3. Unchanged since my install ~8 months ago. > Look for relevant threads previously on the ports@ mailing list > especially. > I will search, thank you :) > Enjoy! > Chris Bennett >
