pkg upgrade won't upgrade ruby-1.9

jeraymond

jeraymond

Hello,

When I run pkg version -v it tells me Ruby is out of date. However when I run pkg upgrade it says everything is up-to-date. Any ideas on why Ruby won't update?

Code: 
# pkg version -v | grep ruby
ruby-1.9.3.547_3,1                 <   needs updating (remote has 1.9.3.547_4,1)
# pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
Checking for upgrades (14 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.
 
Negative. I've been using pkg to install binary packages only. I don't even have /usr/ports on my system. Is updating Ruby binary packages via pkg broken?
 
AFFECTS: users of lang/ruby19
AUTHOR: swills@FreeBSD.org

The default ruby version has been updated from 1.9 to 2.0.
..........

If you use portupgrade, install new ruby, then rebuild all ports that depend
on ruby:

# pkg delete -f ruby ruby-iconv portupgrade
# make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade install clean
# pkg set -o lang/ruby19:lang/ruby20
# portupgrade -x ruby-2.0.\* -fr lang/ruby20
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for posting this information. How can I do this equivalently using pkg and the binary packages only. I'm not looking to build the ports myself.
 
Thanks for the link, but UPDATING only seems to mention what to do if you are compiling ports yourself. I'm not doing this, but am rather installing using the pre-build binary packages installed by pkg. Perhaps this is a pkg bug that it can't handle the switch to a new default version of Ruby? I really can't tell. All I see is that pkg version -v tells me that Ruby needs updating, but pkg upgrade tells me that I'm already up to date.
 
I'm somewhat guessing here as I happen to use ports only. But as packages are supposed to be just pre-built ports I guess my advice might help you anyway.

My understanding is that you seem to be OK because you have ruby19 (which is outdated anyway). What you should probably do is to uninstall ruby19 and all its dependencies and to install ruby20 and the needed dependencies.
 
I did a pkg remove ruby followed by pkg install ruby. This uninstalled 1.9 and installed 2.0. It'd be nice if pkg handled this better. At least provide the user a warning as to why the package isn't updating.
 
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