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Date:      Wed, 6 May 2020 14:14:04 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   pkg-static update failed - FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
Message-ID:  <CA1991B5-2BD1-4BAA-BF12-B4915157F543@kukulies.org>

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I have a FreeBSD-11.0 installed on a VM and was trying to install some =
packages.

pkg search already failed with some error saying FreeBSD.meta has wrong =
version 2.

So I decided to upgrade to FreeBSD 12.1

This seems to have worked:

uname -a

FreeBSD fbsd 12.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC. amd64

But trying to update pkg still fails:

Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: . done
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
Fetching packagesite.txz: .......... done
Unable to open created repository FreeBSD
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!
y meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
pkg-static: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
pkg-static: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No =
error: 0


I=E2=80=99m clueless now.


=E2=80=94
Christoph




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