Why does pkgin want to downgrade my packages?

[Chuck Zmudzinski <frchuckz%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

I have two packages I built and installed from the pkgsrc source tree, xenkernel418-20250521 and xentools418-20250521. I configured pkgin to read my repository of locally built packages first in the list of repositories /usr/pkg/etc/pkg/repositories.conf. 

In the remote repository, the version of the packages is about two months older: xenkernel418-20241221 xentools418-20241221

With the newer versions from my local repository already installed, I run (after running pkgin update):

ave$ sudo pkgin upgrade
Password:
calculating dependencies...done.

2 packages to upgrade:
  xenkernel418-20241221 xentools418-20241221

0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 2 to upgrade, 0 to install
0B to download, 2387K of disk space will be freed up

proceed ? [Y/n]

So I say n because I don't want to downgrade the packages.

This is very annoying if there are other packages I want to upgrade. I spent a few hours figuring out how to tell pkgin not to upgrade the xenkernel and xentools packages because it always wants to downgrade them, but so far no joy.

Please help.

Thanks.