Re: Why does pkgin want to downgrade my packages?

[beaker%sdf.org@localhost (beaker)]

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
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[1] https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin#files