Re: pkg error [2.6.2_1 --quarterly?]

Doug Hardie <[email protected]> Thu, 7 May 2026 11:13:51 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At one time I had switched off quarterly, but now it is set back to quarterly.  

FreeBSD-ports: {
 url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",

This is a Raspberry Pi 4  - FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p8 GENERIC arm64

mail# freebsd-version -kur
15.0-RELEASE-p8
15.0-RELEASE-p8
15.0-RELEASE-p8


-- Doug

> On May 7, 2026, at 08:20, Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 5/6/26 22:51, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> pkg-2.6.2_1 gives me the following errors at the top of any search command output:
>> 
>> mail# pkg search postfix
>> pkg: Error extracting the archive: 'Write error'
>> pkg: No signature found
>> 
>> The search does present the proper output after that.
>> 
>> -- Doug
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Are you using a quarterly? Which FreeBSD ABI (version and archtecture)?
> 
> For aarch64 and arm64 quarterly is a 2.6.2_1 but almost all the latest
> for them are at 2.7.5 (or, for aarch64 for FreeBSD 13: 2.7.4). (Based on
> what freshports.org reports.)
> 
> It might be that quarterly for the various FreeBSD ABIs should be updated.
> 
> -- 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com