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On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Eggert, Lars wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm netbooting with a read-only rootfs. Up until version 1.5.2 of pkg, that sometimes caused some errors when installing various packages, but the install continued even if some files couldn't be written.
> 
> That seems to have changed with 1.5.4. Specifically, upgrading ca_root_nss from 3.19 to 3.19.1_1 now aborts in archive_read_extract () as shown below.
> 
> This regression makes it difficult to run read-only; any chance this abort can be turned into a warning instead?

pkg is maintained externally to FreeBSD, opening a bug report at 
https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues is the best way to get things like 
this fixed.

Thanks,

Gavin