[Bug 296467] pkg upgrade installs unrelated, unnecessary other packages

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296467

--- Comment #4 from wbe@psr.com ---
I'm sorry if I confused you.  The system uses freebsd-update.  It is not
pkgbase'ified.  The "pkg upgrade -f" is done after all the "freebsd-update
install"s and reboots have been done, to upgrade all the pkg ports (e.g., X
windows).

> So multiple file adjustments as long as pkg 2.6.2 is in use.
2.6.2??  As I said in Comment 2, the system currently runs 2.7.5.

> The following 2 definitions conflict by, overall, using both quarterly and
> latest in the command that you typed:
Since the repositories have different names, pkg has been happily updating from
both, sees the later version in /latest, and uses that.

> If you want FreeBSD-ports to be based on latest,
I do.

>then in a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/*.conf file, have:
> 
> FreeBSD-ports: {
>   url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
> }
That looks like the better approach.  I probably need some way to remove pkg's
repository information for "FreeBSD", though, or will "pkg update" discard
information for repositories no longer mentioned in any of the .conf files?

> It looks like you will need to pkg delete the packages that are in FreeBSD
> and then remove that definition before then putting to use FreeBSD-ports (at
> least if you follow modern naming conventions). I'll note that pkg delete
> does not support -rFreeBSD as an option, even in 2.7.5 .
I'm not sure what you mean, but I'm not going to uninstall hundreds of
currently installed pkgs, unless it's some sort of single command
reinstall-like operation.  The FreeBSD /latest repo itself is (I think) larger
than the FreeBSD-ports /quarterly repo in terms of number of entries.

What about using rm to delete the relevant "FreeBSD" files?  Here's what's
under /var/db/pkg/ at the moment:

# ls -F /var/db/pkg
FreeBSD.meta                    repo-FreeBSD.sqlite-journal
local.sqlite                    repos/
repo-FreeBSD.sqlite             vuln.xml

# ls -F /var/db/pkg/repos/
FreeBSD/                FreeBSD-ports/
FreeBSD-kmods/          FreeBSD-ports-kmods/

Would deleting /var/db/pkg/*FreeBSD* and the directory /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD/
work?  The name local.sqlite suggests there might be references to "FreeBSD" in
there somewhere that need to be cleaned up, too.

While doing all this would bring things more up-to-date, and the strategy of
"fix known issues first, then see if it solves the unknown ones" is a
time-honored strategy, I don't yet see how this will fix the original problem
(unless the problem is something only in the FreeBSD repo data, which, I
suspect, will turn out to be identical to the FreeBSD-ports /latest repo data).

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