From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 17:30:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68C6B5E9 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04C658FE for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.101] ([87.139.233.65]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MPm54-1XYm8f1l1W-004zPC; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:30:19 +0200 Message-ID: <543817AA.8080305@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:30:18 +0200 From: olli hauer Reply-To: freebsd-ports User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: PKG not quite ready for prime time References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:yjygruAuOyPBtGPmt/pKfZ8oElyCfwzUcJhArXPgzwNsZ49Ites 1M9TOuzgSVc3zeZorVMk/HCCxOQBFlgXdpjMzUKvaZdv2S7QvIIxEHd87ZvWVsuWp9O/9Ue 6Dw8cg+kzRSjWgefloRGRuRQ1tHwhdJHun7qBAm/v152yB5SgvjqPcmcTQoKdTcDTOsjNQd ScMynI0Vfx9LRaSfINScw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Cc: scratch65535@att.net X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:30:24 -0000 On 2014-10-10 19:13, scratch65535@att.net wrote: > I'm having quite a lot of trouble converting to pkg due to there > being no obvious source of accurate documentation. I got this > after I thought I had it solved and could install something: > > 11:36 Fri, 10 Oct [momcat:root]~> pkg install firefox > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... > pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to > re-create database > Fetching meta.txz: 100% 968 B 1.0k/s 00:01 > pkg: Error loading trusted certificates > pkg: repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings > Fetching digests.txz: 100% 2 MB 119.8k/s 00:17 > pkg: Error loading trusted certificates > pkg: Unable to update repository FreeBSD > All repositories are up-to-date. > pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to > re-create database > pkg: Repository FreeBSD cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required > Updating database digests format: 100% > pkg: No packages available to install matching 'firefox' have > been found in the repositories > > > Just for the record, could someone knowledgeable please post the > real, current list of required config files and their contents OR > a pointer to known-good+complete documentation? > > Thanks! Please show us the following output $ pkg info pkg and from next command everything from "Repositories:" to the end (last ~10 lines) $ pkg -vv -- olli