Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 06:03:51 +0800 From: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: "freebsd-cloud@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Instance of 11.3 got "pkg: repository meta has wrong version 2" Message-ID: <CAKBkRUx_njrAhw1M3%2BNof-jD5ruxhqDkvV1K-X5fAm9xRa=WVg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66e37bf4-bcd7-4c49-89f8-1fe05fb4f6cc@www.fastmail.com> References: <CAKBkRUw49Fa%2BJnmAEhEaE9MbZBg7Q2UCjEHJyhUHxqYoVv-QwA@mail.gmail.com> <66e37bf4-bcd7-4c49-89f8-1fe05fb4f6cc@www.fastmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:43 AM Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 4:46 PM, Li-Wen Hsu wrote: > > > The background is some users reported that when launch instance of > > 11.3, pkg doesn't work at all and the error message is: "pkg: > > repository meta has wrong version 2" > > This affects non-cloud users. I've encountered it on 12.1 release after > an upgrade from 12.0 or 11.3, not sure which. > > We are using our own repo. > > We found 'pkg bootstrap -f' fixed it for us: > > re: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-update-error.74260/ That sounds very possible. It can happen if the pkg itself didn't get upgraded for a long time (which won't happen automatically on a base update), and the self hosted pkg repo already created by the latest pkg. For the cloudware, I have this patch to sysutils/firstboot-pkgs and hope it helps: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24517 Best, Li-Wen
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