PKG not quite ready for prime time

[Michelle Sullivan]

Daniel Austin via freebsd-ports wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/10/2014 14:34, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>> scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
>>>> You are missing this:
>>>> https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:03.pkg.asc
>>>>
>>>> freebsd-update can provide it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for the pointer.
>>>
>>> What puzzles me is why the problem wasn't fixed for o/s versions
>>> prior to 10.0 since it was being made mandatory for those
>>> versions.   That doesn't seem like good practice.
>>>
>> We have a winner! <3\
>
> I've upgraded countless machines from 9.x to 10.x using freebsd-update
> and have never come across this issue.  (have done a few 8.x to 10.x
> via 9.x and been fine too - but not many of these)
>
> What upgrade path did you use, what version did you come from, and
> what version did you go to?

Not talking about changing versions - talking about machines that are
forced to use pkg that are not 10.x and the freebsd-update tool was used
to patch the box at the same major version.

Michelle

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