Re: pkg upgrade vs building from source

Do you use pkg only, or do you have a mix of ports and packages? I ask because you mention going back to ports and it working… my understanding is generally you want to use ports xor pkg, not mix them.

Also you might consider using latest pkg instead of quarterly, as it’s going to be more current and thus have any fixes that might not be in quarterly yet.

But if you are mixing ports and pkg, I would start there. It’s possible you have pretty recent ports, mixed with old-ish (quarterly) pkg, and that could certainly cause issues.

Pat

On Sat, Oct 8, 2022, at 2:52 PM, paul beard wrote:
> freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
> 12.3-RELEASE-p6
> 12.3-RELEASE
> 12.3-RELEASE-p7
> FreeBSD www.paulbeard.org 12.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE r371126 GENERIC
>  i386 1203000 1203000
>
> pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled -e priority
>     url             : "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:i386/quarterly
> ",
>     enabled         : yes,
>     priority        : 0,
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 2:41 PM David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/8/22 08:35, paul beard wrote:
>>  > My skepticism over pkg doing what I expect grows after recent events.
>>
>>  > I allowed [pkg] to upgrade postfix the other day and discovered that
>> it no longer worked;
>>
>>  > How do other people manage this?
>>
>>
>> I have operated a FreeBSD SOHO server 24x7 for 3+ years, starting with
>> FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64,  I strive to keep my systems as simple and
>> "official" as possible.  I have never seen any problems that I could
>> attribute to freebsd-update(1) or pkg(1).
>>
>>
>> My upgrade mantra is:
>>
>> # freebsd-update fetch install
>>
>> # pkg update
>>
>> # pkg upgrade
>>
>> # pkg autoremove
>>
>> # pkg clean
>>
>>
>> On 10/8/22 13:18, paul beard wrote:
>>  > On 10/8/22 11:11, Graham Perrin wrote:
>>  >> Which version of FreeBSD, exactly?
>>  >>
>>  > FreeBSD www.paulbeard.org 12.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE r371126
>> GENERIC
>>  >   i386
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >> Packages from latest, or quarterly?
>>  >>
>>  > Hm…whatever pkg update pulls
>>  >>
>>  >> freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
>>  >>
>>  > See above.
>>
>>
>> For comparison:
>>
>> 2022-10-08 14:03:04 toor@f3 ~
>> # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
>> 12.3-RELEASE-p6
>> 12.3-RELEASE-p6
>> 12.3-RELEASE-p7
>> FreeBSD f3.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.3-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD
>> 12.3-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC  amd64 1203000 1203000
>>
>>
>> I do not see any freebsd-version(1) output in your output, above.
>>
>>
>> I do not see a patch level in your uname(1) output, above.
>>
>>
>> The most obvious difference is that you are running i386 and I am
>> running amd64.  That is not supposed to matter.
>>
>>
>>  > pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled -e priority
>>  >
>>  >      url             :
>> "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:i386/quarterly
>>  > ",
>>  >      enabled         : yes,
>>  >      priority        : 0,
>>
>>
>> For comparison:
>>
>> 2022-10-08 14:03:12 toor@f3 ~
>> # pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled -e priority
>>      url             :
>> "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly",
>>      enabled         : yes,
>>      priority        : 0,
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>
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> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/