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Hi Andrew,

On 05/06/14 07:07 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> Things like this are covered in /usr/ports/UPDATING (which is admittedly
> awkward and not obvious for those using only binary packages). However, AFAIK,
> the pkg developers are working on a way to make pkg handle origin changes
> without manual intervention (or have already done this for the upcoming version
> of pkg).

There is also a pkg command 'updating' to display UPDATING entries for
installed packages.