From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 16 23:47:44 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB15A2F3 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 23:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B43D1138D for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 23:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-53.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.53]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t4GNlhpk024783 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 18:47:43 -0500 Message-ID: <5557D71F.70408@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 18:53:58 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: pkg upgrade problem References: <5557D47D.2030301@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 23:47:45 -0000 On 05/16/15 18:50, Ben Woods wrote: > On Sunday, May 17, 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> >> I just tried to do a 'pkg upgrade -y' from the console CLI as root. I >> redirected all output to a file, which I list below: >> >> >> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:40:13pm] 333 % cat LIST.pkg-upgrade.May2015.txt >> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... >> Fetching meta.txz... done >> Fetching packagesite.txz... done >> Processing entries... done >> FreeBSD repository update completed. 23971 packages processed. >> Checking for upgrades (536 candidates)... done >> Processing candidates (536 candidates)... done >> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: >> pkg: cannot find libreoffice in the request >> pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver >> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:40:16pm] 334 % >> >> I had cleaned out the /var/db/pkg/ directory of old repo data & meta data. >> How do I work around this ? Is this a problem w/ remote repos, or something >> at my end (possibly including pilot error :-/ ) ? TIA & have a nice weekend >> .... >> > I wonder if you have the latest version of pkg (can you please check you > have 1.5.2 by typing pkg -v). > > Perhaps try updating pkg first using "pkg upgrade pkg". Then once again try > your "pkg upgrade". > > Regards, > Ben Slightly more useful than my last reply .... [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:53:18pm] 335 % pkg -v 1.5.2 [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:53:19pm] 335 % uname -a FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p13 #0: Tue Apr 7 03:01:12 UTC 2015 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:53:22pm] 336 % -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.