pkg_version and portversion discrepancy

[Grell]

Hey,

I use portupgrade to update my ports, and use portsdb -Fu to update the (database?).

Anyway, [cmd=]pkg_version | grep '<'[/cmd] returns nothing in need of updating. However [cmd=]portversion -vL=[/cmd] comes back with this:

[root@BlackBox /usr/ports]# portversion -L=
py26-bsddb                  <
py26-gdbm                   <
py26-sqlite3                <
py26-tkinter                <

What can I do to get these two programs data in sync? Thank you.

 

[achix]

# pkg_version uses /var/db/pkg and /usr/ports/INDEX-8,
while # portversion (faster) uses /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and /usr/ports/INDEX-8.db
# portsdb -Fuupdates only /usr/ports/INDEX-8.db (and you rarely need to do this by hand, since other tools (portsnap) take care of this), so what you must do actually is run # pkgdb -Fu, which deals with /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db

In short /var/db/pkg/ and /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db have the really installed packages, while /usr/ports/INDEX-8 and /usr/ports/INDEX-8.db have all the potential ports/packages.

 

[wblock@]

Did you follow 20110304 in /usr/ports/UPDATING? portupgrade may see those py26- packages as needing to be rebuilt for py27-.