Re: pkg update -f fails

Moin Rahman <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:20:41 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> On Dec 14, 2025, at 15:09, Xavier Humbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Tried to reinstall py311-setuptools :
> 
>> root@numenor ~ ]# pkg install devel/py-setuptools
>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>> Fetching data.pkg: 100%   11 MiB  11.2MB/s    00:01
>> Processing entries:   0%
>> pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:13:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:14:amd64
>> pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:13:amd64
>> Processing entries:   0%
>> Unable to update repository FreeBSD
>> Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
>> FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
>> Error updating repositories!
>> The following 8 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
>> 
>> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>>         py310-setuptools: 63.1.0_3 [FreeBSD]
>>         py311-setuptools: 63.1.0_3 [FreeBSD]
>>         py311-wheel: 0.45.1 [FreeBSD]
>>         py312-setuptools: 63.1.0_3 [FreeBSD]
>>         py39-setuptools: 63.1.0_3 [FreeBSD]
>>         python310: 3.10.17_1 [FreeBSD]
>>         python312: 3.12.10_1 [FreeBSD]
>>         python39: 3.9.22_1 [FreeBSD]
>> 
>> Number of packages to be installed: 8
>> 
>> The process will require 503 MiB more space.
>> 75 MiB to be downloaded.
>> 
>> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
>> [1/8] Fetching py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3.pkg: 100%    1 MiB  1.4MB/s    00:01
>> pkg: cached package py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3: missing or size mismatch, fetching from remote
>> [2/8] Fetching py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3.pkg: 100%    1 MiB  1.4MB/s    00:01
>> pkg: cached package py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3: missing or size mismatch, cannot continue
>> Consider running 'pkg update -f'
>> [3/8] Fetching py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3.pkg: 100%    1 MiB  1.4MB/s    00:01
>> pkg: cached package py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3: missing or size mismatch, fetching from remote
>> [4/8] Fetching py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3.pkg: 100%    1 MiB  1.4MB/s    00:01
>> pkg: cached package py311-setuptools-63.1.0_3: missing or size mismatch, cannot continue
>> Consider running 'pkg update -f'
> 
> Followed the advice :
> 
>> [root@numenor ~ ]# pkg update -f
>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>> Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01
>> Fetching data.pkg: 100%   11 MiB  11.2MB/s    00:01
>> Processing entries:   0%
>> pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:13:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:14:amd64
--------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:13:amd64
-------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Processing entries:   0%
>> Unable to update repository FreeBSD
>> Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
>> Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01
>> Fetching data.pkg: 100%   34 KiB  34.9kB/s    00:01
>> Processing entries: 100%
>> FreeBSD-kmods repository update completed. 227 packages processed.
>> Error updating repositories!
>> 
> My pkg.repos.conf :
> 
>> FreeBSD: {
>>   url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest",
Always use `url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest"` unless there is a strong
case not to.

>>   mirror_type: "srv",
>>   signature_type: "fingerprints",
>>   fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>>   enabled: yes
>> }
> 
> This is FreeBSD 14.3-STABLE
> 
> What happens ?
I think the messages are clear here that you are trying to install pkgs from a 13 repos
on a 14 host.

Kind regards,
Moin
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