On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:00 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > After years I have finally got round to upgrading my main computer. > My intention is to upgrade the ports as well, but pkg doesn't want to > play nice: > > # pkg-static install -f pkg > pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running > "pkg-static install -f pkg" recommended > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... > pkg-static: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2 > pkg-static: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0 > Fetching meta.txz: 100% 916 B 0.9kB/s 00:01 > pkg-static: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2 > repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings > Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 582.8kB/s 00:11 > pkg-static: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2 > pkg-static: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0 > Unable to open created repository FreeBSD > Unable to update repository FreeBSD > Error updating repositories! > > I'm happy to blow everything away, but is there a way to extract > something that pkg can use to determine which packages to install?
`pkg bootstrap -f` should recover pkg to something usable _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
