Unable to update repository Synth

[Bob Willcox]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 09:29:14AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Jonathan. That's what I'll do then...  :)

Bob

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