Re: Pkg repository is broken...

On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 11:30:58 -0400
Waitman Gobble <waitman_at_waitman.net> wrote:

> On 2020-03-07 05:10, Ronald Klop wrote:
> > On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:38:55 +0100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
> > <grog_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Friday,  6 March 2020 at 12:29:44 +0100, Lars Engels wrote:  
> >>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 03:16:14PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
> >>> wrote:  
> >>>> 
> >>>> Any workarounds in the meantime?  This must affect a lot of
> >>>> people, including those who use 12-:
> >>>> 
> >>>>   pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:12.0:amd64 instead of 
> >>>> FreeBSD:12:amd64
> >>>>   pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages with wrong ABI: 
> >>>> FreeBSD:12.0:amd64  
> >>> 
> >>> Still broken for me on 12.1.  
> >> 
> >> Strange.  Mine cleared up automatically the following day.
> >> 
> >> It's also strange how few replies I have received.  Two private
> >> messages (why?), yours, and that was it.  You'd think that people
> >> would be screaming.
> >> 
> >> Greg  
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not screaming because I'm settling with the situation and
> > starting to make workarounds.
> > And wondering where the official communication of the community is.
> > Nothing about this situation on www.freebsd.org. All information
> > about the situation seems scattered through the mailinglists.
> > 
> > Things are working for me on 13-CURRENT again, but still broken on
> > 12.1-RELEASE. See attachment.
> > 
> > Ronald.
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> 
> 
> Did you try:
> pkg update -f
> 
> 
> I installed 12.1 on a new laptop yesterday, I have not experienced 
> issues with pkg.
> 

This was only an issue on the "latest" branch. If you don't alter
"/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf", you'll get packages from the "quarterly"
branch, which fortunately wasn't affected.

Anyway, this has been fixed as of today 13:30 UTC, see
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244549#c43

-m

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Michael Gmelin