Assertion failed & Abort trap from pkg subsystem

[Michael Ross]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:05:30 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:25:36AM +0100, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> > > Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
>> > > Fetching bash-4.3.30_1.txz: 100%    1 MB   1.2M/s    00:01
>> > > Fetching gettext-runtime-0.19.3.txz: 100%  144 KB 147.2k/s    00:01
>> > > Checking integrity...Assertion failed: (pkgdb_ensure_loaded(j->db,  
>> p2, PKG_LOAD_FILES|PKG_LOAD_DIRS) == EPKG_OK), function  
>> pkg_conflicts_need_conflict, file pkg_jobs_conflicts.c, line 211.
>> > > Child process pid=4851 terminated abnormally: Abort trap
>> ...
>> > According to the 20141130 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING, the gettext
>> > port was split into 2 ports.  One containing the libraries, and the
>> > other the developer tools.
>> >
>> > See /usr/ports/UPDATING on how to fix this issue.
>>
>> Thanks, that got the issue fixed.
>>
>> For Christmas I wish for a more descriptive error message from pkg :-)
>>
> it has been fixed :) (better than a more descriptive error message no?)
>
> Best regards
> Bapt

But to know things like this,
I have to have an updated ports tree on your system,
because "pkg updating" doesn't have it's own copy of UPDATING somewhere.
( I thought it had until know )

So before "pkg upgrade" I'd have to update my ports tree to check UPDATING?


Michael