Chicken/egg problem with pkg

[Jan Bramkamp]

On 10/03/2017 14:47, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 03/10/17 14:26, Hans de Hartog wrote:
>> I have an old web server (10.1-RELEASE-p9) which is running for years
>>
>> without any upgrades. Now I want to install a simple port (trafshow, to
>>
>> see what's going on).
>>
>> It first want to upgrade pkg from 1.5.1 to 1.10.0_2 but that doesn't
>> work:
>>
>> [1/1] Upgrading pkg from 1.5.1 to 1.10.0_2...
>> [1/1] Extracting pkg-1.10.0_2: 100%
>> /usr/local/lib/libpkg.so.4: Undefined symbol "openat"
>>
>> Anything I try to do with pkg now gives me this error-message.
>>
>> /var/log/messages says: pkg: pkg upgraded: 1.5.1 -> 1.10.0_2
>>
>> How do I proceed from here (without upgrading everything, please)?
>>
>
> Have you tried using the "pkg-static" command? It's the same as pkg, but
> statically linked, should sidestep your issue.

The old pkg-static might work, but it would wreck his system because he 
uses a repo with an ABI unsupported by his base + kernel system. He is 
lucky he immediately triggered the incompatibility.