On 2024/09/12 12:39, Matthew Martin wrote: > > I think that does make sense (and is OK) but it won't directly fix the > > issue Matthew is seeing (the result then would have been that neither of > > rust, rust-fmt, rust-clippy got updated). > > That is all I was hoping for: that pkg_add -u wouldn't break any already > installed packages. (Of course now I need to update to get clippy and > rustfmt to work again, but that's what one signs up for when running > snapshots.)
Considering it's not too uncommon for packages to get broken _during_ a run of pkg_add (for example I've seen this with vim when there's been an glib2 update with a major bump), I think it's quite likely that pkg_add -u would break existing packages if it can't update everything.
