Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:57:32 +0100 From: Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem with pkg Message-ID: <28fa36aa-e1b1-d58b-96cb-17da0428a150@rlwinm.de> In-Reply-To: <06a269f9-b942-5f1b-717c-7de4a60bd263@madpilot.net> References: <a2528a17-bae9-ef23-e2cd-bc4b1c813db7@xs4all.nl> <06a269f9-b942-5f1b-717c-7de4a60bd263@madpilot.net>
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On 10/03/2017 14:47, Guido Falsi wrote: > On 03/10/17 14:26, Hans de Hartog wrote: >> I have an old web server (10.1-RELEASE-p9) which is running for years >> >> without any upgrades. Now I want to install a simple port (trafshow, to >> >> see what's going on). >> >> It first want to upgrade pkg from 1.5.1 to 1.10.0_2 but that doesn't >> work: >> >> [1/1] Upgrading pkg from 1.5.1 to 1.10.0_2... >> [1/1] Extracting pkg-1.10.0_2: 100% >> /usr/local/lib/libpkg.so.4: Undefined symbol "openat" >> >> Anything I try to do with pkg now gives me this error-message. >> >> /var/log/messages says: pkg: pkg upgraded: 1.5.1 -> 1.10.0_2 >> >> How do I proceed from here (without upgrading everything, please)? >> > > Have you tried using the "pkg-static" command? It's the same as pkg, but > statically linked, should sidestep your issue. The old pkg-static might work, but it would wreck his system because he uses a repo with an ABI unsupported by his base + kernel system. He is lucky he immediately triggered the incompatibility.
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