Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:42:33 +0400 From: Dimitri Minaev <minaev@gmail.com> To: Jan Beich <jbeich@vfemail.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing packages after upgrade Message-ID: <d6d52f54-5048-8db6-6ff3-76022a724dd7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <60dq-4khv-wny@FreeBSD.org> References: <34ee100d-3014-9820-e1cb-a14c66d5a87d@gmail.com> <60dq-4khv-wny@FreeBSD.org>
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You were right, today the updated database contains all firefox-related packages. Thank you for the detailed answer. On 08/14/2017 12:33 PM, Jan Beich wrote: > Dimitri Minaev <minaev@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a virtual machine running FreeBSD. Last week the OS was upgraded >> from 10.1 to 11.1-RELEASE. After the upgrade I tried to install Firefox, >> but `pkg' cannot find the package in the repository: >> >> $ sudo pkg install firefox >> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... >> FreeBSD repository is up to date. >> All repositories are up to date. >> pkg: No packages available to install matching 'firefox' have been found >> in the repositories >> >> $ sudo pkg search firefox >> esteidfirefoxplugin-3.8.0.1115 Digital signing with Estonian ID card in >> Firefox >> linux-firefox-45.9.0,2 Web browser based on the browser portion >> of Mozilla >> xpi-firefox-showcase-0.9.5.6 Easily locate and select any open browser >> window >> >> Firefox is present in the ports directory, but not in the packages >> database. I updated the database using -f option, but the result was the >> same. I don't know if there are any other lost packages, but it seems >> very probable. What's happened? How do I get the full database? > > firefox was missing for a few days due to a fallout from r447542. Try again. > > Disappearing packages issue was also discussed on the recent devsummit. > ports-secteam@ maintains quarterly branches exactly to avoid this but > sometimes mistakes happen. > > http://beefy3.nyi.freebsd.org/data/110amd64-quarterly/447639/logs/errors/firefox-54.0.1_1,1.log > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221361 > https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201708/Desktop#Ports >
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