Why pkg offers different versions of packages on two machines?

[Rafal Lukawiecki]

> On 2 Sep 2017, at 00:35, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rafal,
> 
> I agree the FreeBSD.conf file you have shown here looks like it is pulling from quarterly.
> 
> This is not the normal FreeBSD.conf file for FreeBSD 11-STABLE, which you can see here: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf?revision=302408&view=markup <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf?revision=302408&view=markup>
> 
> Perhaps check 2 things:
> 1. Double check you have posted the /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf file from the 11-STABLE machine, and that you don't have any temporary mount points overwriting it.
> 2. Can you post the contents of all files in /etc/pkg/ and in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
> 
> Regards,
> Ben

Dear Ben,

Here is the data that you have asked for, plus a couple of extras. This is running in a jail on a FreeNAS device. There are no mounts over this part of the file hierarchy. Having said that, your line of thought brought something up that I was clearly not aware of, and I think this solves the issue. There are two FreeBSD.conf files, one in /etc/pkg, where I was originally looking, and another one in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/. That second one refers to /latest. I did not realise there were two configs… Thank you for helping me resolve the issue, very much, indeed.

Outputs:

$ name -a
FreeBSD xyz 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #0 r313908+d7d07647f69(freenas/11.0-stable): Thu Jul 20 19:01:05 UTC 2017     root at gauntlet:/freenas-11-releng/freenas/_BE/objs/freenas-11-releng/freenas/_BE/os/sys/FreeNAS.amd64  amd64

$ ls -a /etc/pkg/
.		..		FreeBSD.conf

$ cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
# $FreeBSD: releng/11.0/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 303975 2016-08-11 23:39:23Z gjb $
#
# To disable this repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
# create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file:
#
#   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
#   echo "FreeBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#

FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}

$ ls -a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
.		..		FreeBSD.conf

$ cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:11:x86:64/latest",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  enabled: yes
}

Many thanks,
Rafal
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Rafal Lukawiecki
Data Scientist 
Project Botticelli Ltd