On 2014-01-15 17:05, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: >> >>> The mysterious messages were due to a a default configuration file >>> which I think is not installed with the latest version of pkg. >> >> It was in the "pkg" I got this morning, which reminded me of this sad >> workflow. > > I installed the port. I don't know how often the packages are updated. > >>> I switched a 9.2 system over to pkg a couple of days ago, and did >>> what the Handbook says--really, just install pkg and run pkg2ng--and >>> did not see those messages. >> >> >> You might have this backwards. I'm pretty sure that the handbook >> shows the old configuration information, and the Wiki shows the new. > > I don't understand how. The Handbook mentions pkg.conf but does not > show any entries for it, while the wiki shows a sample file. Again, I > believe the file changed, and it was the presence of the obsolete > version that caused the messages. The current port only installs > pkg.conf.sample. > > Maybe it would help to be more specific: what needs to be changed in > the Handbook version? Without pkg.conf, the current version of pkg > does not complain, so that seems okay. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" In 10.x and later, there is a /etc/pkg/freebsd.conf that contains the default package site, and the format of pkg.conf changed
If you get the bootstrapped version of pkg on 9 that is still pkg 1.1.4 or whatever, it installs a pkg.conf that is the 'old' format Upgrading to pkg 1.2 may cause extra warnings. If removing /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf makes them go away, then that was the problem. -- Allan Jude
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