Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 00:12:13 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg repository is broken... Message-ID: <2E16CEBC-3E08-45A4-88F8-F81FBE37D1F4@grem.de> In-Reply-To: <20200307230352.GB20478@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20200307230352.GB20478@eureka.lemis.com>
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> On 8. Mar 2020, at 00:04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 23:55:33 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrot= e: >=20 > [More irrelevant text deleted, also dropping current@] >=20 > Is it really so difficult to trim your replies? >=20 >>>>>> On 7. Mar 2020, at 23:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrot= e: >>>>> ???On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 16:46:58 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:= >>>>>> This was only an issue on the "latest" branch. If you don't alter >>>>>> "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf", you'll get packages from the "quarterly" >>>>>> branch, which fortunately wasn't affected. >>>>> No, this isn't necessarily correct. I have never modified this file, >>>>> but I ended up with a copy of /usr/src/usr.bin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.latest= >>>>> with this revision string: >>>>> # $FreeBSD: stable/11/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 263937 2014-03-30 15:24:17Z= bdrewery $ >>>>> Despite the age, this appears to identical to the current version, >>>>> according to svn blame. Arguably this should be the default anyway. >> Installing 12.1 from install media gives you quarterly. >=20 > Yes, quite possibly. But as I said, it's not always the case. In the part you trimmed he wrote: >>>>>> I installed 12.1 on a new laptop yesterday, I have not experienced >>>>>> issues with pkg. my comment >>>>>=20 >>>>> This was only an issue on the "latest" branch. If you don't alter >>>>> "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf", you'll get packages from the "quarterly" >>>>> branch, which fortunately wasn't affected. >>>>>=20 was a direct response to that (fresh install of a 12.1 system). This obvious= ly doesn=E2=80=99t necessarily apply to systems that have been updated from p= revious releases. -m
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