bogus warning from pkg

Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 16 04:18:23 UTC 2021


Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote on
Tue Feb 16 02:14:06 UTC 2021 :

> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:10:54PM -0800, Mark Millard via freebsd-ports wrote:
> > Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote on
> > Mon Feb 15 20:39:19 UTC 2021 :
> > 
> > > Step 1).  Install FreeBSD 13.0 on empty disk.
> > > Step 2).  Install git from ports and grab FreeBSD 14.0 src.
> > > Step 3).  Buildworld/kernel for FreeBSD 14.0
> > > Step 4).  Install FreeBSD 14.0 and reboot.
> > > Step 5).  Delete all ports.
> > > Step 6).  Re-install pkg, portmaster, and 589 other ports.
> > 
> > It does not sound like Step 6 was "rebuild ports and install"
> > but just pkg install use, at least for pkg itself.
> 
> Ports are rebuilt on the system as the pre-built ports
> have options selected that do not match the requirements
> of the system.  It takes a week or more to rebuild 
> everything, which why I'm concerned with the bogus
> warning and whether 'pkg bootstrap -f' would rebuild
> everything.
> 
> I also do
> 
> % cd /usr/ports
> % svn update
> % make fetchindex
> % pkg audit -qF
> 
> before I build any port.  That third step pulls down
> the INDEX-14, which again leads to confusion when pkg
> issues a warning about 13.

If you still have the context to do the comparison:

How does the output of "pkg info pkg" compare to:

. . .
Architecture   : FreeBSD:13:amd64
. . .
Annotations    :
	FreeBSD_version: 13?????
. . .

Does it have "14"s instead of "13"s?

===
Mark Millard
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