Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 20:22:45 -0700 From: Steve Rikli <sr@genyosha.net> To: Bobb Shires <bobb@fastmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching pkg from quarterly to latest Message-ID: <ahPAheT7WoZQTLXH@dragon.home.genyosha.net> In-Reply-To: <7cb31e23-dfd4-4009-b993-87f71d238ea3@app.fastmail.com>
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For starters, let's do the simple thing and check what your new
pkg config file actually ended up looking like.
Fwiw I've usually had something like this for FreeBSD 14 and earlier:
FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
For FreeBSD 15 and newer, where there is new pkgbase as well as pkg,
I have the same config except the repo name for pkg is "FreeBSD-ports".
I'd expect the 2nd setup to work on 14 as well, but I suspect the
additional lines after "url:" might be missing from your new file, and
that may be giving trouble.
On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 10:26:28PM -0400, Bobb Shires wrote:
> I'm on 14.4-RELEASE-p5 and following instructions in section 4.4.2 of the handbook "To switch pkg(8) from Quarterly to Latest run the following commands:"
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#quarterly-latest-branch
>
> The two commands listed appeared to complete normally, however the command
> # pkg update -f
>
> Gives me this... Help please? What does this mean?
> Thanks!
>
> === root@monster ~ 2 -> # pkg update -f
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2 kB/s 00:01
> Fetching data: 100% 10 MiB 11.0 MB/s 00:01
> Processing entries: 100%
> FreeBSD repository update completed. 37078 packages processed.
> Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
> Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2 kB/s 00:01
> Fetching data: 100% 36 KiB 37.0 kB/s 00:01
> Processing entries: 100%
> FreeBSD-kmods repository update completed. 245 packages processed.
> Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD-ports has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
> pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/meta.conf -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
> pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/meta.txz -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
> repository FreeBSD-ports has no meta file, using default settings
> pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/data.pkg -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
> pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/data.tzst -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
> pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
> pkg: packagesite URL error for pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/packagesite.tzst -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
> Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports
> Error updating repositories!
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