pkg upgrade problem

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 05/16/15 18:50, Ben Woods wrote:
> On Sunday, May 17, 2015, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I just tried to do a 'pkg upgrade -y' from the console CLI as root. I
>> redirected all output to a file, which I list below:
>>
>>
>> [root at kabini1, /etc, 6:40:13pm] 333 % cat LIST.pkg-upgrade.May2015.txt
>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>> Fetching meta.txz... done
>> Fetching packagesite.txz... done
>> Processing entries... done
>> FreeBSD repository update completed. 23971 packages processed.
>> Checking for upgrades (536 candidates)... done
>> Processing candidates (536 candidates)... done
>> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>> pkg: cannot find libreoffice in the request
>> pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver
>> [root at kabini1, /etc, 6:40:16pm] 334 %
>>
>> I had cleaned out the /var/db/pkg/ directory of old repo data & meta data.
>> How do I work around this ? Is this a problem w/ remote repos, or something
>> at my end (possibly including pilot error :-/ ) ? TIA & have a nice weekend
>> ....
>>
> I wonder if you have the latest version of pkg (can you please check you
> have 1.5.2 by typing pkg -v).
>
> Perhaps try updating pkg first using "pkg upgrade pkg". Then once again try
> your "pkg upgrade".
>
> Regards,
> Ben


Slightly more useful than my last reply ....

[root at kabini1, /etc, 6:53:18pm] 335 % pkg -v
1.5.2
[root at kabini1, /etc, 6:53:19pm] 335 % uname -a
FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p13 #0: Tue 
Apr  7 03:01:12 UTC 2015 
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[root at kabini1, /etc, 6:53:22pm] 336 %

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