Re: env ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg update -f --repository FreeBSD-base

On Sep 11, 2025, at 18:57, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:

> With pkg 2.3.1, the second of these commands fails.
> 
> env ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg update -f --repository FreeBSD
> env ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg update -f --repository FreeBSD-base
> 
> Am I missing something? (As far as I can tell, it would have succeeded five days ago with 2.2.2.)
> 
> ----
> 
> Script started on Fri Sep 12 02:41:09 2025
> root@pkg:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
> 
> 14.3-RELEASE-p2
> 14.3-RELEASE-p2
> 14.3-RELEASE-p2
> FreeBSD pkg 14.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p2 releng/14.3-n271439-5982521fe3dd GENERIC amd64 1403000 1403000
> root@pkg:~ # pkg repos FreeBSD-base
> 
> FreeBSD-base: {
>     url             : "pkg+http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/base_latest",

You are not using the FreeBSD:${ABI}:amd64 notation above.

That means that "env ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 " is not
changing the url to refer to:

http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_latest

for the upgrade to 15.

Part of the point of the :${ABI}: notation is to
allow command line replacements of the text when
changing it to a non-default value for the context.

Another option would be to edit the file to reference
:15: explicitly before rtrying:

env ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg update -f --repository FreeBSD-base

(There would be other uses of ABI substitution for
all I know.)

>     enabled         : yes,
>     priority        : 0,
>     mirror_type     : "SRV",
>     signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
>     fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
>   }
> root@pkg:~ # pkg -v
> 
> 2.3.1
> root@pkg:~ # env ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg update -f --repository FreeBSD-base
> 
> pkg: Setting ABI requires setting OSVERSION, guessing the OSVERSION as: 1500000
> pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended
> Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue...
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD-base has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
> Fetching meta.conf:   0%
> Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01
> Fetching data.pkg:   0%
> Fetching data.pkg: 100%   49 KiB  50.4kB/s    00:01
> Processing entries:   0%
> pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:14:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:15:amd64
> pkg: repository FreeBSD-base contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:14:amd64
> 
> Processing entries:   0%
> Unable to update repository FreeBSD-base
> Error updating repositories!
> root@pkg:~ # env ABI=FreeBSD:15:amd64 pkg upgrade -Fqy
> 
> pkg: Setting ABI requires setting OSVERSION, guessing the OSVERSION as: 1500000
> pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD-kmods has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD-base has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
> pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:14:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:15:amd64
> pkg: repository FreeBSD-base contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:14:amd64
> root@pkg:~ # exit
> 
> exit
> 
> Script done on Fri Sep 12 02:44:24 2025
> 


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com