Re: pkg killed on FreeBSD upgrade to 14

pkg-static bootstrap -f will force an upgrade of pkg from the package repository. After that several rounds of portmaster -af should find all the breakages.

I have found poudrière to be more reliable at rebuilding everything than portmaster.

On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, at 12:43, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is a question or a warning.
>
> I upgraded my "latest" FreeBSD box to 14.0-RELEASE. It basically runs 
> local DNS and a DHCP server so it's not a huge deal if it's trashed, and 
> is therefore the first to get upgraded. It was originally installed with 
> 12.0 and has been updated to everything in between.
>
> I got "bad vibes" going to from 13.2->14.0 - warnings that seemed 
> reasonable about stuff missing from /src/ and suchlike that I didn't 
> expect to see, but no actual errors as far as I could tell.
>
> On completion, however, pkg was no longer working - the following error 
> message:
>
> 'ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libssl.so.111" not found, required by "pkg"'
>
> My suspicion is that this was something to do with OpenSSL being updated 
> in 14.0 but I decided I'd had enough and did a (successful) rollback 
> rather than trying to figure it out and relinking libraries.
>
> Has anyone else had the same problem, and what are the runes to avoid it 
> should I decide to have another go?
>
> Thanks, Frank.