Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected

[Mark Millard]

Xavier Humbert xavier at groumpf.org wrote on
Sat Jan 30 22:02:51 UTC 2021 :

> I was running 13-CURRENT, and as of 01/22 I switched to 13-STABLE
> 
> Now, when I run any ports/pkg command - I use only ports-, I got
> 
> > pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg 
> > bootstrap -f" recommended
> No a big deal, I thought, but :
> 
> > [root at numenor ~]# pkg bootstrap -f
> > The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> > Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> > Bootstrapping pkg from 
> > pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest, please wait...
> > Verifying signature with trusted certificate 
> > pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done
> > pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg 
> > bootstrap -f" recommended
> > Installing pkg-1.16.2...
> > pkg-static: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:13:amd64 instead of 
> > *FreeBSD:14:amd64*
> > package pkg is already installed, forced install
> > Extracting pkg-1.16.2: 100%
> > [root at numenor ~]# pkg check -Bd
> > pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg 
> > bootstrap -f" recommended
> 
> The message is still there. I never had 14-CURRENT on this system.
> 
> Reinstalled ports-mgmt/pkg from source, didn't help
> 


I stayed on main but how to follow from main to stable/N is of
interest. So I'll watch to see what you learn. (I only just
finished updating everything to 14, including all my
from-source ports builds, but skipping powerpc and powerpc64.)

It would be interesting to know the commit-id of the last
main branch commit that you had. This might be essential
to someone being able to figure out what happened.

author	Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>	2021-01-22 00:06:26 +0000
committer	Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>	2021-01-22 00:08:57 +0000
commit	bfd15705156b0436cfe79aea11868dcc0c6e078a (patch)
Create the stable/13 branch

author	Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>	2021-01-22 00:10:07 +0000
committer	Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>	2021-01-22 00:10:07 +0000
commit	a53ce3fc4938e37d5ec89304846203d2083c61a2 (patch)
Bump CURRENT to 14.0

There is not much time (minutes) after stable/13 was created
before main switched to 14.

The 30,000+ package builds did not start for more than a day
after that for main and for stable/13 (and each takes more
than 2 days to build):

main-amd64     default   build start: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 01:25:15 GMT

13stable-amd64 quarterly build start: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 01:33:13 GMT
13stable-amd64 default   build start: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 01:34:10 GMT

So it would seem unlikely you could have picked up a pkg that was
built for/from stable/13 or main as 14-CURRENT on Jan-22nd or soon
after.

This leaves me curious about what to avoid at such transitions.


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Mark Millard
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