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  • Re: pkg after upgrading to FreeBSD 14.0

    From Winston@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 25 20:28:24 2023
    That does raise the question: If there's no /usr/sbin/pkg,
    how is one expected to install pkg initially?
    Or does pkg itself uninstall /usr/sbin/pkg and related files
    once pkg has been fully installed?
    Or did reinstalling pkg mess up my system? :)
    -WBE

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  • From Winston@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 25 20:18:01 2023
    I upgraded a system from 13.2 to 14.0.
    As a normal part of a major release upgrade, I do pkg upgrade [-f]
    after the second install reboot.

    This time, however, I got:

    pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended

    Unfortunately,
    # pkg bootstrap -f
    got
    pkg: pkg(7) bootstrapper not found at /usr/sbin/pkg

    (because, indeed, there is no /usr/sbin/pkg; it probably ought to be /usr/local/sbin/pkg).

    Reinstalling pkg itself with "pkg upgrade -f pkg" appears to have fixed
    the problem, "pkg bootstrap -f" not needed.
    -WBE

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Winston on Mon Nov 27 01:34:28 2023
    Winston <[email protected]d> wrote:
    That does raise the question: If there's no /usr/sbin/pkg,
    how is one expected to install pkg initially?
    Or does pkg itself uninstall /usr/sbin/pkg and related files
    once pkg has been fully installed?
    Or did reinstalling pkg mess up my system? :)
    -WBE

    I never install a .0 version...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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  • From Jesse Rehmer@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 27 03:47:39 2023
    On Nov 25, 2023 at 7:28:24 PM CST, "Winston" <[email protected]d> wrote:

    That does raise the question: If there's no /usr/sbin/pkg,
    how is one expected to install pkg initially?
    Or does pkg itself uninstall /usr/sbin/pkg and related files
    once pkg has been fully installed?
    Or did reinstalling pkg mess up my system? :)
    -WBE

    If you do not have /usr/sbin/pkg (there should be one following an upgrade), you can try:

    /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static install -f pkg

    If you do have /usr/sbin/pkg, but it throws an error following an upgrade you can try:

    /usr/sbin/pkg bootstrap -f

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  • From Winston@21:1/5 to Jesse Rehmer on Mon Nov 27 00:41:41 2023
    I posted:
    That does raise the question: If there's no /usr/sbin/pkg,
    how is one expected to install pkg initially?
    Or does pkg itself uninstall /usr/sbin/pkg and related files
    once pkg has been fully installed?
    Or did reinstalling pkg mess up my system? :)
    -WBE

    In case you didn't see my earlier post, pkg itself had suggested I run
    "pkg bootstrap -f". Doing that tried to run /usr/sbin/pkg, which is
    how I discovered its absence.

    Jesse Rehmer <[email protected]> replied:
    If you do not have /usr/sbin/pkg (there should be one following an upgrade),
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    I thought that, too, which is why I was surprised at finding it missing.

    you can try:

    /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static install -f pkg

    Oh, /usr/local/sbin/pkg and pkg-static were already installed,
    and they were the ones that tried, and failed, to run /usr/sbin/pkg
    to do the "pkg bootstrap -f".
    -WBE

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  • From Winston@21:1/5 to I previously on Sat Dec 9 11:13:54 2023
    I previously wrote:
    I upgraded a system from 13.2 to 14.0.

    Graham Perrin <[email protected]> asked:
    Did you perform the minor update before the major upgrade?

    Not sure which minor update you mean:

    * 13.2-RELEASE-p5 was running at the time of the update, which
    should have been the latest 13.2 available at that time.
    [There have been security patches to 13.2 and 14.0 since then,
    so it's not the latest 13.2 today.]

    * pkg was 1.20.9 before 14.0 and the same after installing 14.0
    and running "pkg upgrade -f pkg".

    As a normal part of a major release upgrade, I do pkg upgrade [-f]
    after the second install reboot.

    This time, however, I got:
    pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended

    Unfortunately,
    # pkg bootstrap -f
    got
    pkg: pkg(7) bootstrapper not found at /usr/sbin/pkg
    (because, indeed, there is no /usr/sbin/pkg; it probably ought to be
    /usr/local/sbin/pkg).

    Reinstalling pkg itself with "pkg upgrade -f pkg" appears to have fixed
    the [warning message] problem, "pkg bootstrap -f" not needed.

    Update: I just checked backups: The file /usr/sbin/pkg did not exist
    before the upgrade to 14.0 either, so this is not an issue of the
    upgrade to 14.0 deleting it. The issue if the combination of /usr/local/sbin/pkg issuing that Warning AND /usr/local/sbin/pkg
    trying to run /usr/sbin/pkg as part of doing "pkg bootstrap -f".
    As I noted, "pkg upgrade -f pkg" worked to silence the warning.
    -WBE

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  • From Winston@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 9 11:17:08 2023
    Typo:
    The issue if the combination of
    should be: ^^ is

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