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Subject: Re: possible problem with pkg in FreeBSD11.4-BETA2
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>      On Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 16:05:09 +0200 Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.or=
g>
> wrote:
>      [Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> wrote:]

> > > This might be due to cockpit error, but I don't remember the exact h=
istory
> > > of this machine.  I have a test machine that was running 11.3-RELEAS=
E, and
> > > had been upgraded with freebsd-update.  I upgraded it to 11.4-BETA1 =
last
> > > week, and BETA2 this weekend.  Then I tried "pkg upgrade" and got an
> > > error:
> >
> > Use
> >
> > pkg bootstrap -f
> >
> > There's some hickup in the upgrade path between your version
> > and the most current, so...
> >
>      He switched from -RELEASE packages to -STABLE packages.

Are BETA releases treated as -STABLE?  If so, would this problem be
expected?  If so, it should be handled much more gracefully.  If not,
I don't think that's the problem; I'm reasonably sure this machine
has only been upgraded with freebsd-update; it was running an 11.3
patch version.

		Mike