pkgin upgrade or full-upgrade isn't possible if one package is no longer availble

[drscream]

Environment

• Uname: Darwin havanna.local 16.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jun 15 17:36:27 PDT 2017; root:xnu-3789.70.16~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 i386 MacBookPro12,1 Darwin
• Version: pkgin 0.9.4 for Darwin-13.4.0 x86_64 (using SQLite 3.20.1)
• Repositories: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Darwin/trunk/x86_64/All

Details

I'm using the trunk Darwin repository from Joyent. The repository provides rolling updates for packages. I mostly run an pkgin update and pkgin upgrade or pkgin fug, but if one package is no longer available on the remote site a upgrade or fug isn't possible.

Example

Update the local database:

 » pkgin update
processing remote summary (https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Darwin/trunk/x86_64/All)...
database for https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Darwin/trunk/x86_64/All is up-to-date

Run an upgade which result in the error vim-lang has no associated repository:

 » pkgin upgrade
calculating dependencies... done.
pkgin: vim-lang-8.0.1096 has no associated repository

A workaround or maybe regular way is to remove the package, in this case vim-lang to run an upgrade after that. This works fine!

Recommendation

pkgin could handle this case so it will inform the user if he like to remove the package and run the upgrade.

Also the best case would be the package will be removed exactly at the time when it's needed to be removed. Because otherwise if you remove the package at the beginning and wait before the upgrade you may have broken dependencies or missing features in one or more application.

[jperkin]

I think this was fixed earlier, but if not then it should be with 23.8.0.