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Date:      Thu, 21 May 2015 10:10:00 -0453
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg upgrade problem
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On 05/20/15 22:36, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:08 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>> On 05/16/15 18:53, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> On 05/16/15 18:50, Ben Woods wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, May 17, 2015, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just tried to do a 'pkg upgrade -y' from the console CLI as root. I
>>>>> redirected all output to a file, which I list below:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:40:13pm] 333 % cat LIST.pkg-upgrade.May2015.txt
>>>>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>>>>> Fetching meta.txz... done
>>>>> Fetching packagesite.txz... done
>>>>> Processing entries... done
>>>>> FreeBSD repository update completed. 23971 packages processed.
>>>>> Checking for upgrades (536 candidates)... done
>>>>> Processing candidates (536 candidates)... done
>>>>> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>>>>> pkg: cannot find libreoffice in the request
>>>>> pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver
>>>>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:40:16pm] 334 %
>>>>>
>>>>> I had cleaned out the /var/db/pkg/ directory of old repo data & meta
>>>>> data.
>>>>> How do I work around this ? Is this a problem w/ remote repos, or
>>>>> something
>>>>> at my end (possibly including pilot error :-/ ) ? TIA & have a nice
>>>>> weekend
>>>>> ....
>>>>>
>>>> I wonder if you have the latest version of pkg (can you please check you
>>>> have 1.5.2 by typing pkg -v).
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps try updating pkg first using "pkg upgrade pkg". Then once again
>>>> try
>>>> your "pkg upgrade".
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> Slightly more useful than my last reply ....
>>>
>>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:53:18pm] 335 % pkg -v
>>> 1.5.2
>>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:53:19pm] 335 % uname -a
>>> FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p13 #0: Tue Apr
>>> 7 03:01:12 UTC 2015
>>> root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:53:22pm] 336 %
>>
>>
>> Anyone got anything on this ? I'm still stuck. If it's pilot error, just say
>> so, I can take it ;-). TIA & have a nice evening ....
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>          William A. Mahaffey III
> Check out this issue.
> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1248
>
> Paul
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*Booooyah* !!!! The recommendation to do a 'pkg check -Ba', followed by 
the upgrade worked seamlessly :-). Back in the saddle again !!!

-- 

	William A. Mahaffey III

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