Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:08:23 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing quarterly current pkg files? Message-ID: <32231334-43C2-4C4D-8D49-9C23499C8EB0@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <5B2A420D-8814-4DB8-9F96-56A95C4D5984@yahoo.com> References: <DED88E88-C1A6-45CB-AF8A-BFD047D61B57.ref@yahoo.com> <DED88E88-C1A6-45CB-AF8A-BFD047D61B57@yahoo.com> <20220411234610.GD5990@eureka.lemis.com> <5B2A420D-8814-4DB8-9F96-56A95C4D5984@yahoo.com>
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On 2022-Apr-11, at 17:50, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > On 2022-Apr-11, at 16:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> [Copying -ports; the issue could be interesting to others] >> >> On Monday, 11 April 2022 at 0:22:23 -0700, Mark Millard wrote: >>> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org> >>> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:04:43 +1000 : >>> >>>> I've checked both IPv4 sites, and >>>> http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/ only contains a "latest" >>>> directory, not "quarterly". >>>> >>>> What's the issue here? This system was running fine until I tried the >>>> bootstrap. >>> >>> main [so: 14 as things are, aka current] never has quarterly. >>> This is not a change. >>> >>> My guess is that your /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf ended up no >>> longer looking like: >>> >>> ... >>> FreeBSD: { >>> url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest", >>> >>> but ended up listing . . ./quarterly instead of . . ./latest . >>> Or a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf was created that >>> referenced . . ./quarterly instead. >> >> Thanks. That led to the solution. In fact, FreeBSD.conf was >> unchanged since November 2019; the issue was that I originally >> installed -STABLE, and then upgraded to -CURRENT some months ago. pkg >> appears only to have noticed this after the beginning of the quarter. >> >> Is there any warning about this somewhere? I didn't see one. It >> seems strange that the upgrade to -CURRENT went seamlessly, but that >> pkg failed as a result with messages that aren't immediately obvious. >> > > Not exactly what you are asking for, but there is: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/QuarterlyBranch > > Towards the end it has notes about switching a Quarterly context > to use a Latest one (i.e. based on the ports git main branch), > including adjusting the .conf files and then running "pkg update -f". > (This can be done on a system that should, by, default, get > quarterly --if a matching latest is available.) > > The "pkg update -f" is something that had probably also not been > done. There is a "man 8 pkg-update" that indicates what -f is for. A more official/normal place for that information is: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-using > http://pkg.freebsd.org reports what is available from FreeBSD for > various platform/FreeBSD-version combinations, including some > "only quarterly is updated" contexts. (So latest can be older than > quarterly.) > > It is not explicit about "only latest exists" contexts: For that you > have to click the link and see what is there --or just know the rule > that, for now, FreeBSD:14 is main (a.k.a. CURRENT) and main only gets > a latest , not a quarterly . > === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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