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Date:      Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:12:00 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portversion doesn't seem to know what's out of date
Message-ID:  <20140727161200.01eec19d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:51:56 +1000
Jason Birch wrote:

> I built FreeBSD for my Beaglebone Black a couple of weeks ago, and
> went to do an update just then. After updating /usr/ports, I ran
> `portversion | grep \<` to see a list of what could be updated.
> Knowing that this takes a bit longer and needing to run out the door,
> I also type `portupgrade -aF` afterwards, to fetch anything that
> might need upgrading.
> 
> When I returned, I found that portversion seemed to think everything
> was up to date, but ...
>
>     root@beaglebone:/usr/home/jbirch  # portsnap fetch
>     ...
>     root@beaglebone:/usr/home/jbirch # uname -a
>     FreeBSD beaglebone 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r268309:
> Sun Jul  6 22:13:49 EST 2014
> jbirch@267801:/usr/home/jbirch/crochet-freebsd/work/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/BEAGLEBONE
>  arm
> 
>
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before, or can point me forward?

Try running portsdb -Fu. I don't think portsnap fetches an INDEX file
for current. portupgrade -aF doesn't need to know about versions, so
it's not affected.




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