On 07/27/16 23:56, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
> On 2016-07-27 15:42, Ben Woods wrote:
>> Ok, it seems the PkgBase repo is located in a directory that uses the
>> ABI style FreeBSD:12:amd64 in the directory name, but the packages
>> contained within that repo are built for ABI freebsd:12:x86:64.
>>
>> The following should be a suitable work-around:
>>
>> 1. Change the contents of /usr/local/etc/pkg/repo/FreeBSD-base.conf,
>> updating the url line to remove the ${ABI} variable and instead be:
>>
>> url: "file:///usr/obj/usr/src/repo/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest",
>>
>>
>> 2. Perform the upgrade by running the command:
>>
>> -
>>
>> # env ABI=freebsd:12:x86:64 pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base
>>
>>
>>
>> This likely needs to be fixed so that the work around is not
>> necessary, but
>> hopefully that gets you going in the mean time.
>
> You can also symlink FreeBSD:12:x86:64 to FreeBSD:12:amd64 in
> /usr/obj/usr/src/repo. That effectively makes the same repo available
> for both ABI strings.
OK, this works and I now have my CURRENT VM updated to something recent.
Thank you.
This major version upgrade via pkg needs to run much more smoothly
though, preferably without having to fiddle with the repo.conf.
Cheers,
Matthew
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