Ivan Wang wrote:
michael schuster wrote:
<snipped>
it seems that 'pkg refresh --full' was necessary to
get things going again
Though it's still not good experience why a manual download of server metadata
is required. one wouldn't do that had he not know there is an update on server
in the first place.
A pkg refresh --full shouldn't have been necessary; a pkg refresh should
have been sufficient.
However, there are two possible causes here that I can think of quickly:
* proxy/ISP issue preventing incremental catalog updates from working
(this has been reported a few times at least that I know of personally)
* The implicit refresh check performed by the packaging system had
already been performed at least once within the last four hours, so an
explicit 'pkg refresh' was necessary to force a check for updates. For
performance and other reasons, the default is to only check for updates
every four hours.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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