pkg often wants to reinstall itself for no reason

[gwollman]

Here is a typescript. First run (just normal pkg upgrade after changing a package in the repo):

root@khavrinen$ pkg upgrade
Updating isfahel repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100%    163 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%  333 KiB 340.6kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
isfahel repository update completed. 1490 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (1 candidates): 100%
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
        emacs-26.3_4,3 (options changed)

Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1

40 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Fetching emacs-26.3_4,3.txz: 100%   40 MiB  42.1MB/s    00:01    
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Reinstalling emacs-26.3_4,3...
[1/1] Extracting emacs-26.3_4,3: 100%

Now installing inkscape, same session, repository unchanged:

root@khavrinen$ pkg install inkscape
Updating isfahel repository catalogue...
isfahel repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking integrity... done (1 conflicting)
  - ImageMagick6-6.9.11.6,1 conflicts with ImageMagick7-7.0.10.6 on /usr/local/bin/Magick++-config
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 4 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
        ImageMagick7: 7.0.10.6

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        ImageMagick6: 6.9.11.6,1
        inkscape: 0.92.4_16

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
        pkg-1.14.3

Number of packages to be removed: 1
Number of packages to be installed: 2
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1

The process will require 128 MiB more space.

Why does it want to reinstall the pkg package? It didn't want to when I ran the upgrade a few seconds ago?

[rbgarga]

I also saw it happening lots of times on pfSense