Re: Why does pkgin want to downgrade my packages?

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

On 6/5/2025 12:03 PM, beaker wrote:
> Chuck Zmudzinski <frchuckz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/5/2025 4:30 AM, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
>> > 
>> > El 4/6/25 a las 21:23, Chuck Zmudzinski escribi?:
>> >> 
>> >> 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.
>> > 
>> > Hi, perhaps this thread helps. I asked a similar question.
>> > 
>> > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/05/18/msg041575.html
>> > 
>> > Just if it helps.
>>
>> Yes that thread might help. So far I discovered the only way to upgrade
>> the packages back to the version in my local repository that pkgin
>> downgraded to the version in the official repositories is by using
>> pkg_add instead of pkgin.
>>
>> I see the aforementioned thread mentions a PKGPATH value, I have
>> not yet investigated trying to tweak that. So maybe I can use pkgin
>> instead of pkg_add for my local packages by adjusting PKGPATH. I
>> will post here again with the fix if I succeed in finding a fix.
> 
> You might try setting the "keep" packages to specific versions
> in /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/preferred.conf [1].  It seems to work for
> simple packages with few dependencies but might not for your xen
> kernel stuff, or you may have to additionally add in the dependent
> packages, not ideal.
> 
> -B
> --
> [1] https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin#files


I saw that "keep" setting and tried it, but it made no difference.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Chuck