Re: Missing quarterly current pkg files?

On 2022-Apr-11, at 16:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> [Copying -ports; the issue could be interesting to others]
> 
> On Monday, 11 April 2022 at  0:22:23 -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org>
>> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:04:43 +1000 :
>> 
>>> I've checked both IPv4 sites, and
>>> http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/ only contains a "latest"
>>> directory, not "quarterly".
>>> 
>>> What's the issue here?  This system was running fine until I tried the
>>> bootstrap.
>> 
>> main [so: 14 as things are, aka current] never has quarterly.
>> This is not a change.
>> 
>> My guess is that your /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf ended up no
>> longer looking like:
>> 
>> ...
>> FreeBSD: {
>>  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>> 
>> but ended up listing . . ./quarterly instead of . . ./latest .
>> Or a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf was created that
>> referenced . . ./quarterly instead.
> 
> Thanks.  That led to the solution.  In fact, FreeBSD.conf was
> unchanged since November 2019; the issue was that I originally
> installed -STABLE, and then upgraded to -CURRENT some months ago.  pkg
> appears only to have noticed this after the beginning of the quarter.
> 
> Is there any warning about this somewhere?  I didn't see one.  It
> seems strange that the upgrade to -CURRENT went seamlessly, but that
> pkg failed as a result with messages that aren't immediately obvious.
> 

Not exactly what you are asking for, but there is:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/QuarterlyBranch

Towards the end it has notes about switching a Quarterly context
to use a Latest one (i.e. based on the ports git main branch),
including adjusting the .conf files and then running "pkg update -f".
(This can be done on a system that should, by, default, get
quarterly --if a matching latest is available.)

The "pkg update -f" is something that had probably also not been
done. There is a "man 8 pkg-update" that indicates what -f is for.

http://pkg.freebsd.org reports what is available from FreeBSD for
various platform/FreeBSD-version combinations, including some
"only quarterly is updated" contexts. (So latest can be older than
quarterly.)

It is not explicit about "only latest exists" contexts: For that you
have to click the link and see what is there --or just know the rule
that, for now, FreeBSD:14 is main (a.k.a. CURRENT) and main only gets
a latest , not a quarterly .

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com