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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:25:25 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: When did pkg(8) drop support for 12-STABLE?
Message-ID:  <CAJuc1zN9y9dF0O66hwfNP2mFoC3wpKa98UXbW4WAn4xnygFUnw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 15:00, Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021-02-23 16:04, Mark Millard wrote:
> > Chris portmaster at bsdforge.com wrote on
> > Tue Feb 23 23:31:09 UTC 2021 :
> >
> >> On 2021-02-23 14:58, @lbutlr wrote:
> >> > On 23 Feb 2021, at 13:26, Chris <portmaster at BSDforge.com> wrote:
> >> >> OK On a virgin 12 stable install.
> >> >
> >> > The current release is 12.2-RELEASE. 12.0-RELEASE was EOLed last February. I
> >> > am
> >> > not sure what build you mean by "12-STABLE"
> >> It was from a 12-STABLE usb stick (probably 12.1). Is there no way forward,
> >> save
> >> building up to 12.2?
> >
> >
> > You might want to report the output of:
> >
> > # uname -apKU
> >
> > if you can still run it in the environment in question.
> Thank you for your thoughtful suggestion, Mark.
> It returns:
> FreeBSD fbsd12dev 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r363918 GENERIC  amd64
> amd64 1201522 1201522
>
> Is that bad?

You're running 12.1, and not -STABLE. The EOL for 12.1 was Nov-2019.

You need to get a later version or run -STABLE (ie: build from source
off the stable/12 branch).

Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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