pkg schema upgrade?

Patrick gibblertron at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 23:07:10 UTC 2014


On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 09/08/2014 17:21, Patrick wrote:
> > I'm getting the following warning/error with pkg on FreeBSD 10 (since it
> > self-updated to 1.3.5.1:
> >
> >
> > pkg: Repo FreeBSD needs schema upgrade from 2006 to 2010 but it is opened
> > readonly
> >
> > pkg: need to re-create repo FreeBSD to upgrade schema version
> >
> >
> > It sure would be nice if in addition to saying what needs to happen, it
> > said how to make it happen. I don't see anything in the man page that
> talks
> > about this, and my Google-fu is failing me.
>
>   # pkg clean -a
>   # pkg update -f
>
> should restore sanity.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>
> --
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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Thanks, that did the trick. Can I ask how you knew to do that? Should pkg
have done this automatically after it upgraded itself, or is there some
sort of maintenance I should be doing that's not part of normal periodic(8)
operations?

Patrick


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