Re: pkg upgrade foot shooting

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> writes:
> > Any pkg command gets:
> > The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> > Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]:
> > but trying to do so gets:  the most recent version of pkg-2.0.5 is
> already installed
>
> sudo pkg bootstrap -f
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org
>

Thanks to all of you  for suggestions. DES, you hit the jackpot.  Since
there is no man page for the pkg backup command, I was unaware of the -f
option, though I should have, at least, thought to try .
As it turned out, I did not need to restore the the db. Just get pkg
reinstalled.

I am still confused as to the sqlite DB that I know I have looked at in the
past.  I thought that it was in /var/db/pkg, but it is not there... just
distfiles. I figure that the database has to be somewhere.

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