pkg issues 2414 and 2520

On 23/02/2026 03:40, Mark Millard wrote:

> On 2/22/26 18:35, Graham Perrin wrote:
>> …
>>
>> Issue 2414 is probably fixed, I have not seen symptoms in recent months.
> Have you deliberately had installed port-packages that depend on files
> being replaced or removed for FreeBSD-base ?

Not knowingly.

<https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2414#issuecomment-2623657662> 
(2025-01-30) mentioned availability of large file with level 3 debug 
output. Now it may be difficult or impossible for me to recover the 
file. If it is possible, recovery (of the containing pool) might take a 
few days.

<https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2414#issuecomment-3263846843> 
(2025-09-07) more simply, "… the presence of x11/xorg alone may be 
sufficient to trigger this issue.".


> … In summary: Which type of evidence is your judgment based on? …


A few major upgrades of base, at least one of which was 14 to 16, and I 
typically have (at least) my preferred DE installed during such tests: 
KDE Plasma and applications with SDDM and X.Org. I don't know how many 
(I don't keep count), maybe twenty tests in recent months. For some of 
those tests I didn't bother specifying a repo.

A much larger number of simple upgrades (non-major). 2414 did begin with 
a simple upgrade.

I stopped recording information in 2414 after my September 2025 link to 
issue 2520, and then refrained from writing in 2520.