Monday, May 04, 2020

Re: pkg_add can't resolve package - bad major

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 08:23:10AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > I have had this exact same problem before
> >
> > pkg_info -q > packages_installed
> > pkg_delete gettext.
> > pkg_add gettext-runtime
> > pkg_add -u
> > pkg_add -zl packages_installed
> >
> Update your procedures, use pkg_info -z and not pkg_add -z.
> It's been there for ages.
>

My bad. Thanks. That also gives me info I was finding hard to understand
about stems.
Time to sit down and re-read man pages again.

Chris Bennett

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