PKG not quite ready for prime time

[olli hauer]

On 2014-10-10 19:13, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
> I'm having quite a lot of trouble converting to pkg due to there
> being no obvious source of accurate documentation.   I got this
> after I thought I had it solved and could install something:
> 
> 11:36 Fri, 10 Oct [momcat:root]~> pkg install firefox
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to
> re-create database
> Fetching meta.txz: 100%   968 B   1.0k/s    00:01    
> pkg: Error loading trusted certificates
> pkg: repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
> Fetching digests.txz: 100%    2 MB 119.8k/s    00:17    
> pkg: Error loading trusted certificates
> pkg: Unable to update repository FreeBSD
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to
> re-create database
> pkg: Repository FreeBSD cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required
> Updating database digests format: 100%
> pkg: No packages available to install matching 'firefox' have
> been found in the repositories
> 
> 
> Just for the record, could someone knowledgeable please post the
> real, current list of required config files and their contents OR
> a pointer to known-good+complete documentation?
> 
> Thanks!  

Please show us the following output
$ pkg info pkg

and from next command everything from "Repositories:" to the end (last ~10 lines)
$ pkg -vv

-- 
olli