Pkg repository is broken...

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 7. Mar 2020, at 23:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday,  7 March 2020 at 16:46:58 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> [much irrelevant text deleted]
> 
> People, please trim your replies.  Only relevant text should remain
> 
>>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 11:30:58 -0400 Waitman Gobble <waitman at waitman.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I installed 12.1 on a new laptop yesterday, I have not experienced
>>> issues with pkg.
>> 
>> This was only an issue on the "latest" branch. If you don't alter
>> "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf", you'll get packages from the "quarterly"
>> branch, which fortunately wasn't affected.
> 
> No, this isn't necessarily correct.  I have never modified this file,
> but I ended up with a copy of /usr/src/usr.bin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.latest
> with this revision string:
> 
>  # $FreeBSD: stable/11/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 263937 2014-03-30 15:24:17Z bdrewery $
> 
> Despite the age, this appears to identical to the current version,
> according to svn blame.  Arguably this should be the default anyway.
> 

Installing 12.1 from install media gives you quarterly.

-m


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