Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 08:31:34 -0500 From: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> Cc: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: possible problem with pkg in FreeBSD11.4-BETA2 Message-ID: <202005171331.04HDVYMb055487@mail.karels.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 17 May 2020 07:18:19 -0500. <202005171218.04HCIJ1n018324@sdf.org>
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> On Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 16:05:09 +0200 Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.or= g> > wrote: > [Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> wrote:] > > > This might be due to cockpit error, but I don't remember the exact h= istory > > > of this machine. I have a test machine that was running 11.3-RELEAS= E, and > > > had been upgraded with freebsd-update. I upgraded it to 11.4-BETA1 = last > > > week, and BETA2 this weekend. Then I tried "pkg upgrade" and got an > > > error: > > > > Use > > > > pkg bootstrap -f > > > > There's some hickup in the upgrade path between your version > > and the most current, so... > > > He switched from -RELEASE packages to -STABLE packages. Are BETA releases treated as -STABLE? If so, would this problem be expected? If so, it should be handled much more gracefully. If not, I don't think that's the problem; I'm reasonably sure this machine has only been upgraded with freebsd-update; it was running an 11.3 patch version. Mike
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