Re: Another missing package on amd64/6.1.4

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-07-23 at 09:38 BST, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 09:33:38PM -0400, Scott Burns wrote:
> > Previously I reported about gtar packages failing on the above platform.
> > 
> > This evening I attempted to install ncurses on the same platform and it is
> > reported as be available but during the install a 'not available in
> > repository' message is presented by pkgin.
> > 
> > ncti103# pkgin avail | grep -i 'ncurses-5.9'
> > ncurses-5.9nb2       CRT screen handling and optimization package
> > 
> > ncti103# pkgin install ncurses-5.9nb2
> > calculating dependencies... done.
> > 
> > nothing to upgrade.
> > 1 packages to be installed: ncurses-5.9nb2 (1303K to download, 6579K to
> > install)
> > 
> > proceed ? [Y/n] Y
> > downloading packages...
> > ncurses-5.9nb2 is not available on the repository proceed ? [y/N] y
> > installing packages...
> > pkg_install warnings: 0, errors: 0
> 
> I see ncurses-5.9nb3.tgz in the repository.
> Did you run pkgin up ?

It's worth removing --delete from pbulk's rsync args to avoid this
issue.  Whilst it's technically correct, it confuses enough users that
we changed the default at Joyent a long time ago due to the number of
complaints.

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