Re: Why does pkgin want to downgrade my packages?

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

On 6/5/2025 4:30 AM, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
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> El 4/6/25 a las 21:23, Chuck Zmudzinski escribió:
>> Hello,
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>> 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.
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>> In the remote repository, the version of the packages is about two months older: xenkernel418-20241221 xentools418-20241221
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>> With the newer versions from my local repository already installed, I run (after running pkgin update):
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>> ave$ sudo pkgin upgrade
>> Password:
>> calculating dependencies...done.
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>> 2 packages to upgrade:
>>    xenkernel418-20241221 xentools418-20241221
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>> 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 2 to upgrade, 0 to install
>> 0B to download, 2387K of disk space will be freed up
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>> proceed ? [Y/n]
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>> So I say n because I don't want to downgrade the packages.
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>> 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.
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>> Please help.
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>> Thanks.
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> Hi, perhaps this thread helps. I asked a similar question.
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> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/05/18/msg041575.html
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> 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 

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> Regards.
> Ramiro.
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