Error trying to update or install pkg

Mark Raynsford list+org.freebsd.pkg at io7m.com
Fri Feb 21 09:23:19 UTC 2020


Hello!

After an update from FreeBSD 11.2 to 12.2, I'm running into the
following:

$ sudo pkg-static install -f pkg
pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg-static install -f pkg" recommended
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg-static: repository meta has wrong version 2
pkg-static: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    916 B   0.9kB/s    00:01    
pkg-static: repository meta has wrong version 2
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB   3.2MB/s    00:02    
pkg-static: repository meta has wrong version 2
pkg-static: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0
Unable to open created repository FreeBSD
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!

I've actually tried completely removing /var/db/pkg and running the
above, and I still seem to get the same error.

My /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf:

FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}

Any ideas? I'm left unable to complete the "freebsd-update install"
because I can't upgrade existing packages on the system.

-- 
Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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