Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 22:26:28 -0400 From: "Bobb Shires" <bobb@fastmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Switching pkg from quarterly to latest Message-ID: <7cb31e23-dfd4-4009-b993-87f71d238ea3@app.fastmail.com>
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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!home | help
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