From nobody Mon May 25 03:22:45 2026 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4gP1RT4wP8z6fqmV for ; Mon, 25 May 2026 03:23:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sr@genyosha.net) Received: from ns1.genyosha.net (ns1.genyosha.net [50.39.243.221]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "cerebus.home.genyosha.net", Issuer "cerebus.home.genyosha.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4gP1RT2KSPz3khQ for ; Mon, 25 May 2026 03:23:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sr@genyosha.net) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from dragon.home.genyosha.net (ops0.genyosha.net [50.39.243.219]) by ns1.genyosha.net (8.18.1/8.18.1) with ESMTPS id 64P3MofZ033491 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 24 May 2026 20:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sr@genyosha.net) Received: from dragon.home.genyosha.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.home.genyosha.net (8.18.1/8.18.1) with ESMTPS id 64P3MjFH007722 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 24 May 2026 20:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sr@dragon.home.genyosha.net) Received: (from sr@localhost) by dragon.home.genyosha.net (8.18.1/8.18.1/Submit) id 64P3Mjvb007721; Sun, 24 May 2026 20:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sr) Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 20:22:45 -0700 From: Steve Rikli To: Bobb Shires Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching pkg from quarterly to latest Message-ID: References: <7cb31e23-dfd4-4009-b993-87f71d238ea3@app.fastmail.com> List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7cb31e23-dfd4-4009-b993-87f71d238ea3@app.fastmail.com> X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.6.4 (ns1.genyosha.net [50.39.243.221]); Sun, 24 May 2026 20:22:51 -0700 (PDT) for IP:'50.39.243.219' DOMAIN:'ops0.genyosha.net' HELO:'dragon.home.genyosha.net' FROM:'sr@genyosha.net' RCPT:'' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.4 (ns1.genyosha.net [50.39.243.221]); Sun, 24 May 2026 20:22:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20055, ipnet:50.39.128.0/17, country:US] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4gP1RT2KSPz3khQ X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated 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!