Unable to update repository Synth

[Jonathan Chen]

On 11 June 2017 at 01:13, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:14:46AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> On 10 June 2017 at 05:02, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
>> > I am running the drm-next-4.7 and when I ran synth recently on my system
>> > up update the ports and at the end of the run received these errors:
>> >
>> > pkg: wrong architecture: freebsd:10:x86:64 instead of FreeBSD:12:amd64
>> > pkg: repository Synth contains packages with wrong ABI: freebsd:10:x86:64
>> > Processing entries: 100%
>> > Unable to update repository Synth
>> > Error updating repositories!
>> > Unfortunately, the system upgrade failed.
>>
>> synth is complaining that one or more of the packages in the
>> configuration's package directory has packages built for
>> FreeBSD10/amd64 instead of FreeBSD12/amd64. If you have upgraded from
>> FreeBSD 10 to FreeBSD 12, you must remove all the packages that have
>> been built previously.
>
> Are these the packages that currently reside in the repository?

Yes.

> Is there some way to list the packages that are the problem?

A simple way, no. You'd have to unpack each package and inspect the
manifest file to determine the package's abi.

> If not, can I simply delete all of the respository packages?

This is the easiest thing to do, and would be my recommendation. synth
will rebuild all the packages for your installed ports.

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