pkg install problem(s)

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

pkgdb -u
origins - not a string
(NilClass)
Cannot read the pkgdb!
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That has just started happening.
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pkg update
Shared object 'libarchive.so.7' not found, required by "pkg"
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that has just started happening [ so using pkg-static...]
12.0-CURRENT r313487 Feb 13 2017  i386
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On to the Subject:
 Which has plagued my principal method of twice weekly using pkg to
 upgrade going on 3? years now.
 For various reasons, I have to pkg install... only the majority of
 pkgs to be updated.
 For instance, not libxul as of now, cannot afford desktop breakage of
 seamonkey, for instance.
 nor ffmpeg, would prefer not to risk breakage of mplayer, for example 
So I begin typing the subset. pkg-static install p5-This p5-That...
consisting of 40 or so ports.
Upon the 30 typed in, Xorg freezers, reboot.
TEDIOUS.
a better solution,
pkg install works like 'make config' and
one checks off the ones to be updated.
Then, 'is this what you want?
presents
 a subset of the removed/new/upgrade/reinstall
lists, rather than all-or-none brute-force install of all.
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Kindly prioritize that 'feature' into pkg...?
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while I am presenting [re presenting ] q about pkg,
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make build-depends-list
pkg-static: ignoring bad configuration entry in pkg.conf: "INDEX-12"
   ... it does not say why, what a preferred entry should be...
make: "/usr/ports/Mk/Uses/ncurses.mk: line 67: warning:
 /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -g -ql devel/ncurses | grep
 -m 1 "^`pkg query "%p" devel/ncurses` /lib/libncurses.so."" returned
non-zero status.
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I am totally perplexed by the above...
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At least I've workarounds for it all... Kudos to the developers etc.
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