11.0 Install Question

[Miroslav Lachman]

Matthew Seaman wrote on 2016/10/19 11:08:
> On 2016/10/19 09:55, Matt Smith wrote:
>> On Oct 19 10:38, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>>> Jonathan Haack wrote on 2016/10/19 10:09:
>>>> Awe geez ... pkg won't work ... says "shared object "libssl.so.7" not
>>>> found, required by "pkg"
>>>
>>> Do not panic, just run pkg-static to upgrade pkg it-self
>>>
>>> /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static install -f pkg
>>>
>>
>> I think that these instructions should be in the announcement release
>> notes as this question comes up a lot. The notes just say something like
>> "upgrade all your packages". Most people will then just try and run pkg
>> upgrade and get that error without knowing how to solve it. It's not
>> intuitive unless you have come across this before.
>
> pkg(8) does have a built-in warning when it detects an OS major version
> upgrade, which is to do a forced upgrade of pkg(8) so it matches the ABI
> versions of system shlibs.  Did that warning appear in this case?

I think it is not shown if pkg is missing some libraries.
It is shown when OS major version changes and you run pkg befor old 
libraries are deleted or if you run pkg-static:

pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running 
"pkg-static install -f pkg" recommended

Miroslav Lachman