Re: How do I determine the ABI string used by pkg?

On 6 March 2023 5:48:05 am AEDT, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote:
 > Ian Smith wrote on 3/5/23 12:36 PM:
 > > On 6 March 2023 3:03:23 am AEDT, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
 > wrote:
 > >   > Ian Smith wrote on 3/5/23 12:09 AM:
 > >   > > On 2 March 2023 6:50:13 pm AEDT, Mel Pilgrim
 > >   > <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote:
 > >
 > >   > >   > I need to determine the ABI string pkg uses on a given
 > system,
 > >   > and
 > >   > >   > need to do so when there are no pkgs installed.
 > >   > >
 > >   > >   # pkg -N -vv | grep ABI
 > >
 > >   > Will that install pkg "when there are no pkgs installed", the
 > key
 > >   > requirement of the question?
 > >
 > > No; using 'pkg -N' when no packages are installed, /usr/sbin/pkg
 > won't attempt to bootstrap (i.e. install pkg*.pkg as
 > /usr/local/sbin/pkg) but -vv still prints, here:
 > >
 > > ABI = "FreeBSD:12:amd64";
 > > ALTABI = "FreeBSD:12:x86:64";

 > Perhaps OP meant when pkg is not installed, because that's what I 
 > thought was intended.
 > 
 > root@empty_tester:/ # pkg -N -vv | grep ABI
 > pkg: pkg is not installed

Oh.  Now I'm thoroughly confused.

Without -N, /usr/sbin/pkg should use by default /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to first install pkg(8), but how can FreeBSD.conf resolve ${ABI} unless that's already set?

Without -N, does that install pkg for you?  And then emit pkg -vv stuff incl. ABI?

Bapt, can you please help resolve this thread, starting at
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2023-March/002896.html

Note the list archives threading is still busted, as we discussed months ago, so you must back out to the index foreach.

cheers, Ian