Re: pkg-2.7.0: result of pkg query "%n %dn-%dv" is different from 2.6.2_1

Piotr Smyrak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:50:36 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue 14 Apr 12:09, Piotr Smyrak wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:29:17 +0900
> > Tatsuki Makino <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
> > > There may already be reports about this from someone else, but the
> > > display of the results of pkg query is different. The results of
> > > pkg query "%n %dn-%dv" include ports that do not have
> > > dependencies, and a hyphen is displayed. It seems that when
> > > poudriere-3.4.6 fetches packages, it is dropping some dependency
> > > packages.  
> > 
> > There is also one more corner case handled differently. If an
> > installed package has a registered dependency that was removed,
> > previously the dependency would get listed as "$name-(null)", now
> > it's "$name-". Ie.:
> > 
> > pkg-2.6.2:
> > llvm11 python311-(null)
> > 
> > pkg-2.7.0:
> > llvm11 python311-  
> 
> This was is expected also, the (null) was causing many issues, are
> you aware of a case where this causes fallouts?

No, not really. I was just wondering whether this may come from the
same change. 

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 Piotr Smyrak
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