pkg wants to be installed everytime

[InvaderZim]

Time to run updates on 9.2-RELEASE-p15 (which was updated from 8.1-RELEASE). So I say portmaster graphics/ImageMagick. It then checks all the dependencies. One of which is

 Install ports-mgmt/pkg

Running the installs fails, because

===>  Checking if pkg already installed
===>  pkg-1.3.8_3 is already installed
  You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
  by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
  If you really wish to overwrite the old port of pkg
  without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
  in your environment or the "make install" command line.
*** [check-already-installed] Error code 1

Not the first time I've seen something like this, so I do make clean deinstall reinstall -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg which works. So then back to portmaster graphics/ImageMagick and everything is repeated ad infinitum. Why does pkg need to be installed every time?

 

[SirDice]

It doesn't. But I have a feeling your system still has a combination of old and new style packages. Did you ever run pkg2ng? Not sure if it's needed for this version but add

WITH_PKGNG=YES

to /etc/make.conf to force the usage of pkg(8) (and make sure you're converted correctly).

 

[InvaderZim]

I'm sure it shouldn't, but it does. Every time. And the system does have a number of installs via the old mechanism.

We did run pkg2ng, and we added

WITH_PKGNG=YES

to /etc/make.conf, but alas to no avail.

Did get a number of

pkg: sqlite error while executing ROLLBACK TRANSACTION

messages. But there was nothing to roll back, nor were there any transactions active.

 

[ikbendeman]

I've had similar issues on every install, including my current AMD64 10.1 install. For example, I just installed emulators/wine-gecko and before it installed that it, once again, (re)installed ports-mgmt/pkg. I've never figured out why.