Re: Why does pkgin want to downgrade my packages?

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 5/6/25 a las 15:59, Chuck Zmudzinski escribió:
> On 6/5/2025 4:30 AM, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> > El 4/6/25 a las 21:23, Chuck Zmudzinski escribió:
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck

Ok Chuck, good luck!

Ramiro.

> > Regards.
> > Ramiro.