Pkg repository is broken...

[Adam Jimerson]

On 3/7/20 6:56 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>
> I worked around the situation locally by setting ALTABI
> on `pkg update':
>
>   # ALTABI=FreeBSD:12.0:amd64 pkg update -f
>
> This allowed me to run
>
>   # pkg upgrade
>
> without any issues, so I assume none of the about 30 packages I updated
> contained a wrong ABI/architecture.
>
> I verified this by checking:
>
>   # pkg query "%q" | sort | uniq -c
>    112 FreeBSD:12:*
>    219 FreeBSD:12:amd64
>
> Note that you could also export ALTABI to the environment or set it
> in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf, but I figured that I might forget it in
> there.
>
> Also, it seems like none of my packages were affected and not setting
> it on `pkg upgrade' meant that pkg checks for that (at least that's
> what I assume it does) and therefore I won't have to deal with
> different ABIs in my installed packages later.
>
> All of this should be really temporary anyway and hopefully be resolved
> soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>

I'm not screaming either, figured it wouldn't really help speed up
fixing things and that the right people were already working on fixing
it. I am also still getting this on 12.1-RELEASE, but the ALTABI work
around worked for me.

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