Re: pkg-2.4.1 broken?

On Tue 04 Nov 15:59, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> On 11/4/25 3:23 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> 
> As I said, it was created on another machine using 'pkg create pkg-2.4.1',
> but you made me recheck the log. Previously, I failed to spot the following.
> Sorry.
> 
> pkg: dir '/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg' is missing
> pkg: package creation failed
> 
> Hence, I could have known that the package is broken before I copied it to
> another machine.
> 
> I think it is simply an empty tar archive: https://janh.de/tmp/pkg-2.4.1.pkg
> 
> After creating /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg manually, I was able to recreate a
> working package.
> 
> That /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg was missing seems to be a bug in portmaster,
> which was used to upgrade pkg-2.3.1_1 to pkg-2.4.1, because when I do 'pkg
> delete -f pkg' and 'make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg install clean' the
> directory is created correctly. I guess I should learn that portmaster
> really is an outdated method to upgrade.
> 

Noted, in anycase pkg should not have left an empty file it should have been
removed so there is still a bug for me to fix there :D

Best regards,
Bapt