Re: pkg alias commands missing after upgrading to 1.17.5

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:25:54 UTC
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 05:11:06AM -0800, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
> On 2021-12-03 2:56, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:28:58AM -0800, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
> > > With pkg-1.17.5:
> > > 
> > > # pkg alias
> > > ALIAS                ARGUMENTS
> > > # pkg leaf
> > > pkg: unknown command: leaf
> > > 
> > > For more information on available commands and options see 'pkg help'.
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't know what happened in your case, but I cannot reproduce.
> 
> Do you have any diagnostic steps I can do to figure out what happened?
> 
> I fetched a fresh copy of pkg-1.17.5~d6f9535722.pkg from the public repo and
> installed it using pkg-static, but that didn't fix the problem.
> 
> I can at least confirm this only happens on one particular system.  I have
> 15 systems all using the same private pkg repo, and only one has this
> problem.

it means on the system with this issue, someone touched /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf

The aliases are set there, the original file is stored at the following place:
/usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample

Best regards,
Bapt