Thanks, Manish. Very non-standard syntax, that. So evidently when pkg claims that the repositories are current, as it did, it may be, in effect, lying.
Which suggests that *it* should be doing the forced update as step 3 in its attempt to get good bits. [sigh] [Default] On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:43:17 +0000, Manish Jain <bourne.ident...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >On 08/28/17 16:58, scratch65...@att.net wrote: >> [Default] On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:08:05 +0200, Jan Beich >> <jbe...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> Try running: pkg update -f >> >> Are you thinking of something else, perhaps? The man page >> doesn't show an -f switch, and pkg thinks the repositories were >> already current, which is why (I suppose) it tried a remote >> fetch. What am I missing here? > >Hi, You have to look at `man pkg-update` > >-f is arg for update, not pkg > >Regards >Manish Jain >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"