[Bug 206917] ports-mgmt/pkg: url: "file:///xxx" in repos.conf not working!

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            Bug ID: 206917
           Summary: ports-mgmt/pkg: url:    "file:///xxx" in repos.conf
                    not working!
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: pkg at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
          Assignee: pkg at FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(pkg at FreeBSD.org)

Background:

Running CURRENT (FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #30 r295138: Tue Feb  2 09:32:43 CET 2016
amd64) with the lastes updates of ports tree (svn'ed) and using poudriere(8)
for local repository creation, I'm not capable of using a local repository via

url: "file:///xxxx"

in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/myrepo.conf

Ant try to install a package from that repository fails with the errors:

[...]
pkg:
file:///pool/poudriere/data/packages/head-amd64-head-default/.latest/meta.txz:
No such file or directory
repository myrepo has no meta file, using default settings
pkg:
file:///pool/poudriere/data/packages/head-amd64-head-default/.latest/packagesite.txz:
No such file or directory
Unable to update repository myrepo


The location provided is the package folder created by poudriere(8) and it
contains all the complained tarballs pkg needs, but they are symbolic links to
subfolder ".latest". The above shown error message is produced while delegatin
the url-target directly to subfolder ".latest" since I thought pkg wasn't
following symbolic links.

When simply exchanging the culprit url: tag in myrepo.conf with

url:            "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",

the very same remaining configuration setup works as expected!

I did not find any hints in the documentation about how to use local repos
situated in the local file systems or even the exclusion of the usage of those.

I can fetch(1) the files
ile:///pool/poudriere/data/packages/head-amd64-head-default/.latest/{meta.txz|packagesite.txz}!

By simply exchanging the URL towards a remote repo as shown above, the
installation of packages works. This makes me suspect either a configuration
error (which is due to a very sparse documentation regarding file-based repos
then) or a bug. I assume latter.

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