Hi Fulvio, fulvio ciriaco wrote on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:59:29PM +0100:
> I have some ports updated by me, > e.g. emacs-22.1, sawfish-1.3.3 ... > When trying > pkg_add -ui > Candidates for updating sawfish-1.3.3p0 -> sawfish-1.3p9 > Candidates for updating auctex-11.14p1 -> auctex-11.14p1 > ... > auctex installed by me, dependent on emacs-22.1 wants to be > replaced by auctex same version dependent on emacs-21.4, > Does pkg_add -u not check version number? No, currently, it only compares patch level numbers (not version numbers) and even that only within the same package repository. Perhaps setting your PKG_PATH might get part of your job done. The program pkg_add only considers the packages form the first repository in the PKG_PATH where it finds at least one matching one. With the current scheme, considering installed packages as an additional pseudo-repository is not possible and would not make any sense: If that pseudo-repository were put at the beginning, no package would ever get updated, were it put at the end, it would have no effect whatsoever. Consider export PKG_PATH=/usr/ports/packages/386/all/:ftp://openbsd.ftp.fu-berlin.de/snapshots/packages/i386/ or whatever architecture, flavor and mirror you are using. But if use such settings, do not forget regularly cleaning obsolete packages out of the directory /usr/ports/packages/386/all/. With the PKG_PATH shown above, they will always override the public mirror, even when they become outdated and the mirror has newer ones. Hope that helps, Ingo
