pkgng error when installing

[Matthew Seaman]

On 13/11/2017 21:10, Andrew W via freebsd-questions wrote:
> When installing a package Im getting /usr/local/lib/libpkg.so.4:
> Undefined symbol "utimensat"
> 
> Got this twice on two different machines with two different packages.
> 
> Immediately before both times pkgng updated itself to the latest version
> so it would appear that upgrade has gone wrong somwhere.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?
> 

Yes, this issue has been done to death on the lists quite recently.  You
are trying to install packages compiled for a newer version of the OS
than you have installed.  As you have discovered, this is not guaranteed
to work, and you should update your machines to a currently supported
release if you want to carry on using the FreeBSD supplied packages.

	Cheers,

	Matthew