3 Replies to “HEADS UP: pkg will eat itself”

1. bad, worse, worst:

   1)

   #pkg ins php5-fileinfo
   All repositories are up-to-date.
   New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first.
   The following 1 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):

   Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
   pkg: 1.4.11 -> 1.4.12

   The operation will free 16 B.
   2 MiB to be downloaded.

   Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
   Fetching pkg-1.4.12.txz: 100% 2 MiB 2.2MB/s 00:01
   Checking integrity… done (0 conflicting)
   [1/1] Upgrading pkg from 1.4.11 to 1.4.12…
   You may need to manually remove /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf if it’s no longer needed.
   [1/1] Extracting pkg-1.4.12: 20%
   pkg: archive_read_extract(): truncated input
   [1/1] Extracting pkg-1.4.12: 100%
   [1/1] Deleting files for pkg-1.4.12: 100%
   # pkg ins php5-fileinfo
   pkg: Command not found.

   2)

   # cd /usr && make pkg-bootstrap
   /tmp/pkgboot.tar.xz 100% of 1604 kB 140 kBps 00m11s
   /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static install -y pkg
   Updating Avalon repository catalogue…
   Fetching meta.txz: 100% 260 B 0.3k/s 00:01
   Fetching digests.txz: 100% 2 MB 173.4k/s 00:11
   Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 4 MB 426.1k/s 00:11
   Processing new repository entries: 100%
   Avalon repository update completed. 21927 packages processed:
   0 updated, 0 removed and 21927 added.
   pkg-static: warning: database version 30 is newer than libpkg(3) version 27, but still compatible
   New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first.
   Checking integrity… done (0 conflicting)
   The following 1 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):

   Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
   pkg: 1.4.11 -> 1.4.12

   The operation will free 16 B.
   You may need to manually remove /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf if it’s no longer needed.
   pkg-static: unlink(/usr/local/share/licenses/pkg-1.4.11/BSD2CLAUSE): No such file or directory
   pkg-static: unlink(/usr/local/share/licenses/pkg-1.4.11/LICENSE): No such file or directory
   pkg-static: unlink(/usr/local/share/licenses/pkg-1.4.11/catalog.mk): No such file or directory
   [1/1] Upgrading pkg from 1.4.11 to 1.4.12: 100%
   Updating Avalon repository catalogue…
   Avalon repository is up-to-date.
   All repositories are up-to-date.
   Checking integrity… done (0 conflicting)
   The most recent version of packages are already installed

   3)

   pkg install php5-fileinfo
   pkg: Command not found.

   4)

   # rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf

   5)

   pkg install php5-fileinfo
   No active remote repositories configured.

   6)

   Question: Why, Why, Why?

2. why did you do this? “rm /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf”

   run “cd /usr && make pkg-bootstrap” again to restore it.

3. Nobody – you did the right thing when you ran the command to reinstall pkg. I don’t know why you deleted the config. As John points out, you can reinstall that the same way.

   The ‘pkg: command not found’ is I assume because you are using tcsh and didn’t type ‘rehash’ so that the shell would know the new file existed.

   So, to summarize: cd /usr; make pkg-bootstrap

   ‘rehash’ if necessary.

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