Shawn Walker wrote:
Ivan Wang wrote:
michael schuster wrote:
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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.
it was neither - without "--full", I got an error about "Sys V package ...
already in ..." (can't remember the wording), which I found was related to
some respin of the internal packaging server (again, from memory). the WA
given was to use --full, which worked for me.
Michael
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