On Wednesday, 27 July 2016, Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Interesting.  I've just seen exactly the same thing when trying to
> update my CURRENT VM.  It's the transition from FreeBSD:11:amd64 to
> FreeBSD:12:amd64 which seems to be the root cause.
>
> The old 'freebsd:12:x86:64' ABI style is something that pkg(8) moved
> away from many years ago.  It appears in the package metadata as 'arch':
>
> # pkg info -RF FreeBSD-lib-12.0.s20160727061717.txz | head -10
> name: "FreeBSD-lib"
> origin: "base"
> version: "12.0.s20160727061717"
> comment: "lib package"
> maintainer: "r...@freebsd.org"
> www: "https://www.FreeBSD.org";
> abi: "FreeBSD:12:amd64"
> arch: "freebsd:12:x86:64"   <<<----***
> prefix: "/"
> flatsize: 106186
>
> which I believe is more significant for certain ARM and MIPS
> architectures: i386 and amd64 only have one architecture variant apiece.
>
> Still, curious about how to get over this major version number bump.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>

Hi Matthew,

Please see right at the bottom of the PkgBase wiki page where I have
explained how to get around the one time ABI bump during major upgrades.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase#Major_Version_Upgrades

Regards,
Ben


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