Re: 11 RC6 and pkgin issues

On Tue, 21 Jul 2026, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> I upgraded to RC6 on amd64, then I did run pkgin update && pkgin upgrade, 
> just for safety... and now have broken images and issues.
> [...]
>

I've see this issue with new quarterly binaries and I know of 2 things which
can cause this issue:

1. Not all packages exist in the dir. yet (branch symlink updated before all
    binary packages exists; or CDN mirroring is broken), but the pkg_summary.*
    file is complete.

2. Packages exist, but, pkg_summary.* files are broken.

In this case (2026Q2), it's the latter. See:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2026/07/24/msg032406.html

The pkg_summary.* files are still yoyoing between broken (with a 20-Jul-2026 date)
and correct (regenerated ~19:40 UTC every day).

-RVP