Re: `pkg autoremove` uninstalls pkg itself

From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:02:22 UTC
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I tried following steps.
>
> 1. Make clean install of 14.0-RELEASE amd64.
> 2. Login as root
> 3. pkg install git-tiny
> 4. cd /usr/ports
> 5. git clone https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git .
> 6. pkg delete -afy
> 7. cd security/sudo (Probably any other ports are OK expect ports-mgmt/pkg)
> 8. make install
> 9. pkg-static autoremove -y
>
> Then step 9 uninstalls pkg package itself. And it is a bit surprising
> for me.
>
> Then is it expected behavior?

Yes, this is the expected behavior.
Bonus points for figuring out how to install pkg on a system that
doesn't have it. :-)
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolgfsen