Re: IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes -- can't install pkg

On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 08:26 -0700, Chris H wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2018 22:57:52 -0700 <bsd-lists_at_BSDforge.com> said
> 
> > 
> > I just setup a jail from a 12-CURRENT I built awhile ago. It has no
> > ports
> > tree. So I'm attempting
> > to install svnlite. issuing pkg search svnlite returns
> > The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> > Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> > Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/
> > latest,
> > please wait...
> > Verifying signature with trusted certificate
> > pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301...
> > done
> > [12current.localhost] Installing pkg-1.10.5...
> > Newer FreeBSD version for package pkg:
> > To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes
> > - package: 1200062
> > - running kernel: 1200054
> > Allow missmatch now?[Y/n]:
> > 
> > Umm, what? Should I ignore this error? If so, why is there an error
> > at all?
> > I answered no. Guess I won't be able to use pkg(8) on this jail(8).
> > :-(
> > 
> > --Chris
> OK the only reference[1] I can find regarding this, indicates that
> answering "Y"
> to Allow missmatch now? resulted in an ABI mismatch that caused
> pkg(8) to be
> unusable.
> This is on an older version of 12, so I don't have anything that
> might have
> appeared in UPDATING. I really need this jail to resolve accumulating
> pr(1)'s
> on ports(7) I maintain.
> 
> Thank you.

The difference between 1200062 and 1200054 isn't going to affect
anything except modules which are intimate with kernel internals, such
as video drivers or virtualbox type stuff.

IMO, this new version checking done by pkg(8) is just bad Bad BAD. The
only control you get is a knob that tells you to ignore any version
mismatch. There appears to be no option to get the historical worked-
really-well behavior of ignoring mismatches of the minor version for
people who track -current.

-- Ian