PKG not quite ready for prime time
olli hauer
ohauer at gmx.de
Fri Oct 10 18:02:24 UTC 2014
On 2014-10-10 19:43, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:30:18 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> [momcat:root]~> pkg info pkg
> pkg-1.3.8_3
> Name : pkg
> Version : 1.3.8_3
> Installed on : Fri Oct 10 07:57:56 EDT 2014
> Origin : ports-mgmt/pkg
> Architecture : freebsd:9:x86:64
> Prefix : /usr/local
> Categories : ports-mgmt
> Licenses : BSD2CLAUSE
> Maintainer : portmgr at FreeBSD.org
> WWW : http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
> Comment : Package manager
> Shared Libs provided:
> libpkg.so.3
> Flat size : 8.18MiB
> Description :
> Package management tool
>
> WWW: http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
>
>
>>
>> and from next command everything from "Repositories:" to the end (last ~10 lines)
>> $ pkg -vv
>
>
> Repositories:
> FreeBSD: {
> url :
> "pkg+http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:8:x86:64/latest",
> enabled : yes,
> mirror_type : "SRV",
> signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
> fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
> }
> 13:41 Fri, 10 Oct [momcat:root]~>
>
There is a architecture mismatch, your pkg claims to be a 9.x package and your repo wants to install 8.x packages.
I suspect this is a upgraded system that has maunualy changes in the repo file.
Locate the file "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf" and make sure it looks like the following lines (the variable ${ABI} instead "freebsd:8:x86:64")
(it is possible a correct copy exists in /usr/src/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf)
FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
after fixing the repo run
$ pkg update -f
--
olli
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