possible problem with pkg in FreeBSD11.4-BETA2
Mike Karels
mike at karels.net
Sun May 17 13:31:41 UTC 2020
> On Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 16:05:09 +0200 Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> [Mike Karels <mike at karels.net> wrote:]
> > > This might be due to cockpit error, but I don't remember the exact history
> > > of this machine. I have a test machine that was running 11.3-RELEASE, and
> > > had been upgraded with freebsd-update. I upgraded it to 11.4-BETA1 last
> > > week, and BETA2 this weekend. Then I tried "pkg upgrade" and got an
> > > error:
> >
> > Use
> >
> > pkg bootstrap -f
> >
> > There's some hickup in the upgrade path between your version
> > and the most current, so...
> >
> He switched from -RELEASE packages to -STABLE packages.
Are BETA releases treated as -STABLE? If so, would this problem be
expected? If so, it should be handled much more gracefully. If not,
I don't think that's the problem; I'm reasonably sure this machine
has only been upgraded with freebsd-update; it was running an 11.3
patch version.
Mike
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