Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are running -current and have not updated base recently, you > may run inTO "pkg_add: Unknown option: always-update <hash>". > To fix it, just update to a newer base snapshot.
What happened is that a developer made a change to the pkg tools which creates completely incompatible package files. Noone knew this was happening beforehands. An email was circulated after-the-fact to ports@ list (which is mostly read by developers, and not read by users). It has now been weeks, and it still hasn't been clearly communicated. We break compatibility often, but generally ensure the right people -- both developers and users -- know when they need to know. This is important because people who follow snapshots (in various ways) should have a good experience because if they don't enjoy the snapshot experience, we may end up with a smaller test community between releases. Sometimes there are surprises in snapshots of a testing nature, but this particular change was not deployed or communicated as a test (we cannot go back). The normal model was not followed in this instance.
