Re: pkg 2.7.3: "pkg update -rFreeBSD-base" still reports "No repositories are enabled." instead of just updating FreeBSD-base when FreeBSD-base is "enabled: no" (2.7.4 fix intended)

On 4/15/26 18:45, Mark Millard wrote:
> From my https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2643 submittal:
> 
> # pkg update -rFreeBSD-base
> No repositories are enabled.
> 
> # pkg-static update -rFreeBSD-base
> No repositories are enabled.

This turned out to be pkg 2.7.3 mishandling the use of:

# cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
FreeBSD-base:        { enabled: no }
FreeBSD-ports:       { enabled: no }
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { enabled: no }

Those lines should have disabled the 3 but instead deleted them
internally: net result as if the 3 had never been present in
/etc/FreeBSD.conf .

When pkg 2.7.4 shows up the above issue should have been fixed in it.

As stands, a workaround is to put the "no"s into the original file,
replacing the "yes"s. It is the split across files to override the
definitions that leads to the issue in 2.7.3 .

> 
> 
> For reference:
> 
> # pkg -v
> 2.7.3
> 
> # pkg-static -v
> 2.7.3
> 
> # head /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> ==> /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf <==
> #
> # To disable a repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
> # create or edit /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf, e.g.:
> #
> #   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
> #   echo "FreeBSD-ports: { enabled: no }" >>
> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> #   echo "FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { enabled: no }" >>
> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> #
> # Note that the FreeBSD-base repository is disabled by default.
> #
> 
> ==> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf <==
> FreeBSD-base:        { enabled: no }
> FreeBSD-ports:       { enabled: no }
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { enabled: no }
> 
> # man pkg-update
> PKG-UPDATE(8)           FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
> PKG-UPDATE(8)
> 
> NAME
>      pkg update – update the local catalogues of the enabled package
>      repositories
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>      pkg update [-fq] [-r reponame ...]
> 
>      pkg update [--{force,quiet}] [--repository reponame ...]
> 
> . . .
> 
> OPTIONS
>      The following options are supported by pkg update:
> 
> . . .
> 
>      -r reponame, --repository reponame
>             Download the catalogue for the named repository only.  This
> option
>             can be specified multiple times to update several repositories.
>             This will update only the named repositories, irrespective
> of the
>             configured “enabled” status from repo.conf.
> . . .
> 
> Note: All /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/* have all the repositories with
> "enabled: no": configured for there being no defaultrepository.
> 
> 


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com