On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:02:34PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > This happens to me fairly frequently, whether it is on that sparc64 box or > > my amd64 laptop. Yes, I use FETCH_PACKAGES. No, my /etc/installurl is not > > wrong, because if I then run "pkg_add -a py-numpy" it will resolve > > everything just fine. So this is something specific to how the ports > > infrastructure handles the situation.
> If things are not perfectly in synch, FETCH_PACKAGES won't help. > It will look up *exactly* the FULLPKGNAME that's currently in your ports > tree, so if your ports tree is behind or if the packages haven't made it to > the mirror, you're out of luck. It used to be that in such cases, it would fail over to building the new version. Here it just gives up completely. Did that change at some point? > Not that surprised that things could be lagging on sparc64... But, as I said, it happens on amd64 all the time too. It even happens for things that have not changed. --Kurt
