Re: pkg-2.4.1 broken?

Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <367vtbhiyesimjcvtlenitoj6lju5um2dvaff3mwg7bf5ry443@ruqjpccddtv5>
On Tue 04 Nov 15:18, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> # pkg delete -f pkg
> ...
> # ../pkg-static add pkg-2.4.1.pkg
> pkg-static: pkg-2.4.1.pkg is not a valid package: no manifest found
> 
> This is on 14.3-RELEASE/amd64. pkg-2.4.1.pkg was created on a different
> machine using 'pkg create pkg-2.4.1' after upgrading pkg from 2.3.1_1 to
> 2.4.1 using portmaster. pkg-static is also copied from that machine.
> 
> I can still install pkg-2.3.1_1.pkg with the same pkg-static. I only get:
> 
> pkg: warning: database version 37 is newer than libpkg(3) version 36, but
> still compatible
> 
> Besides that warning, everything seems to work with pkg-2.3.1_1.
> 
> I know that portmaster is not really recommended anymore and using
> pkg-static to install pkg is probably not the best way, either. Anyhow, it
> used to work and it should work from my understanding.
> 
> Best,
> Jan Henrik
> 

I would need more output that what you show.

How was your pkg-2.4.1.pkg created? can you host it somewhere to I can analyse.

Best regards,
Bapt
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