When you try to upgrade locked package, pkg-upgrade reports the issue as 'No packages available to upgrade matching'. host is running: FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p7 pkg 1.6.2 $ sudo pkg upgrade -r local mysql56-server Updating local repository catalogue... local repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. pkg: No packages available to upgrade matching 'mysql56-server' have been found in the repositories The above, despite: # pkg search -x mysql56-server mysql56-server-5.6.27 Multithreaded SQL database (server) and: # pkg info -x mysql56-server mysql56-server-5.6.26 If you then pkg unlock mysql56-server, you can upgrade. discussed at: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cannot-upgrade-pkg-from-custom-repo.54080/ https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pkg/2015-November/001375.html
reopened at https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1362