pkg upgrade removing pkgs

[Mario Lobo]

Good morning.

As a habit, every morning I do a pkg update/upgrade (latest).

This morning I got:

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
        falkon: 25.12.1
        kde-baseapps: 25.12.1
        khelpcenter: 25.12.1
        konqueror: 25.12.1
        ktorrent: 25.12.1
        plasma6-discover: 6.5.5
        plasma6-kdeplasma-addons: 6.5.5
        plasma6-kinfocenter: 6.5.5
        plasma6-ksystemstats: 6.5.5
        plasma6-libksysguard: 6.5.5
        plasma6-plasma-browser-integration: 6.5.5
        plasma6-plasma-desktop: 6.5.5
        plasma6-plasma-sdk: 6.5.5
        plasma6-plasma-systemmonitor: 6.5.5
        plasma6-plasma-workspace: 6.5.5
        plasma6-plasma5support: 6.5.5
        plasma6-powerdevil: 6.5.5
        plasma6-systemsettings: 6.5.5
        qt6-webengine: 6.10.1_3
        qt6-webview: 6.10.1

I did some testing:

[/usr/ports]>pkg install -f kde-baseapps
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'kde-baseapps' have been found in the repositories

[/usr/ports]>pkg install -f falkon
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'falkon' have been found in the repositories

[/usr/ports]>pkg install -f ktorrent
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'ktorrent' have been found in the repositories

but they are all in my updated ports tree:

[/usr/ports]>git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Would anybody know why pkg is deleting those packages, or why there are no pks of them?

Thanks,

--

Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!]

[Paul Mather]

This happened to me recently on one of my systems that uses the FreeBSD-15 latest packages.  What happened is one of the QT6 dependencies failed to build on a Poudriere run and so a lot of KDE/Plasma-related packages that depend upon it were skipped.  Because they were skipped, they didn't end up in the package repository that resulted ("package search" failed to find them).  As a result of that, pkg proposed uninstalling large numbers of packages, basically uninstalling the Plasma 6 desktop on that system.

When the pkg system suggests uninstalling dozens, if not hundreds of packages, you probably should think twice about hitting "y" to go ahead. :-)  I should have.  Luckily for me, the next day or so brought another build, which reinstated the Plasma 6 packages, so I could reinstall it.  (Note to self: don't engage in package management before coffee.:)

You can view the status of FreeBSD package build at https://pkg-status.freebsd.org.  The little Poudriere icon will let you view the build status (including failures in the package build logs) for particular build runs.  In my case, the build for "qt6-webengine" timed out, causing the downstream packages depending upon it to be skipped.

Note, these packages were still in the ports tree; they simply failed to build on that run and so didn't make it into the package repository that resulted.

Cheers,

Paul.

[Mario Lobo]

Hi, Paul.

Thanks for the quick reply and tips! It is really helpful.

I'll hold the upgrade and keep checking the status until they clear.

Thank you so much!