Problems with pkg

[Doug Hardie]

> On 21 July 2016, at 04:16, maxnix <maxnix.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Il giorno Thu, 21 Jul 2016 02:05:37 -0700
> Doug Hardie <doug at mail.sermon-archive.info> ha scritto:
> 
>>> On 21 July 2016, at 02:01, maxnix <maxnix.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Il giorno Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:32:06 -0700
>>> Doug Hardie <doug at mail.sermon-archive.info> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>>> I have a recently installed 9.3 system that has been upgraded to
>>>> the latest patches available with freebsd-update.  I tried to
>>>> install postfix using pkg and here are the initial results.
>>>> 
>>>> Backup% uname -a
>>>> FreeBSD Backup 9.3-RELEASE-p43 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p43 #0: Sat May
>>>> 28 00:19:32 UTC 2016
>>>> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>>>> amd64 Backup% su Password: Backup# pkg install postfix
>>>> Updating repository catalogue
>>>> digests.txz                         100% 2137KB   2.1MB/s   1.4MB/s
>>>> 00:01 packagesite.txz                     100% 5592KB   2.7MB/s
>>>> 2.0MB/s   00:02 pkg: package field incomplete: comment
>>>> Incremental update completed, 25142 packages processed:
>>>> 21260 packages updated, 2245 removed and 3882 added.
>>>> pkg: Unable to find catalogs
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> At this point I tried it again and got:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Backup# pkg install postfix
>>>> Updating repository catalogue
>>>> The following 1 packages will be installed:
>>>> 
>>>> 	Installing postfix: 2.11.1_1,1
>>>> 
>>>> The installation will require 13 MB more space
>>>> 
>>>> 1 MB to be downloaded
>>>> 
>>>> Proceed with installing packages [y/N]: y
>>>> pkg:
>>>> http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:9:x86:64/latest/All/postfix-2.11.1_1,1.txz:
>>>> Not Found Backup# 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I don't have this on other 9.3 systems.  How do I get around this?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Try forcing an update of the repositories with:
>>> 
>>> # pkg update -f
>>> 
>>> and then try the installation again.  
>> 
>> Exactly the same output as before.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Pheraps you are using an old version of pkg? If so, install the latest
> from ports. This should solve the problem.

Apparently 9.3 doesn't update pkg using pkg.  Building from ports takes a long time over a slow internet connection, but eventually it did work.  I ended up having to rebuild the ports database once again.  Don't quite know why.  Thanks for the suggestion.




— Doug