Re: Strange problem with firefox package.

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You can't know which mirror you got - maybe one that was late.
For example,
https://ftp2.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/
still has firefox 150.

On Jun 10 10:19:00, [email protected] wrote:
> Something a little strange happened to me on June 7th, so I'd like to
> explain what happened because I can't find a plausible reason.
> On June 7th, I uninstalled the Firefox package, as shown in the
> following log lines in /var/log/messages.
> 
> Jun 7 22:46:08 tredici /bsd: wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0
> Jun 7 23:36:14 tredici pkg_delete: Removed firefox-i18n-it-150.0
> Jun 7 23:36:14 tredici pkg_delete: Removed firefox-151.0.3
> Jun 7 23:46:09 tredici reboot: rebooted by ****
> 
> So, as you can see, I restarted the PC.
> Upon reboot, I reinstalled Firefox, as can always be seen in the logs:
> 
> Jun 7 23:47:00 tredici smartd[30933]: Device: /dev/sd0c [SAT], no ATA
> CHECK POWER STATUS support, ignoring -n Directive
> Jun 7 23:47:22 tredici reorder_kernel: kernel relinking done
> Jun 7 23:48:55 tredici pkg_add: Added firefox-150.0
> Jun 7 23:48:58 tredici pkg_add: Added firefox-i18n-it-150.0
> Jun 8 00:00:01 tredici syslogd[99014]: restart
> 
> But as you can see, the installation version is not the previous one.
> As if there had been a downgrade. In fact, the previous version was
> 151.0.3, but the new package was 150.0.
> So I went to the repository with my browser... and found that the
> version 150.0 package was in packages, but there was no update package
> in packages-stable.
> More precisely, version 150.0 was found at the following URL:
> https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/packages/amd64/
> but in the folder where I believe the updates should be, namely:
> 
> https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/packages-stable/amd64/
> 
> version 151.0.3 was not present.
> I also used ftp commands along with grep to get further confirmation.
> And indeed, there was no Firefox package in packages-stable.
> Unfortunately, ksh doesn't have a timestamp in its history, so I can't
> reconstruct exactly when I typed the ftp+grep commands.
> The next day, to get further confirmation, I took snapshots on
> archive.org at the following URL:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/packages-stable/amd64/
> 
> And it seems to me, but I'm not sure, that the package wasn't present
> in the snapshot either.
> However, rechecking the snapshot later, the package is present. So
> either something strange is happening or I'm just very distracted and
> made a mistake.
> A few minutes ago, I tried removing Firefox again, restarting the PC,
> and reinstalling the package, and I had no problems. The system
> installed version 151.0.3.
> I don't think there's anything else to add except that the package was
> updated on June 9th:
> 
> Jun 7 23:48:55 thirteen pkg_add: Added firefox-150.0
> Jun 7 23:48:58 thirteen pkg_add: Added firefox-i18n-it-150.0
> Jun 9 06:12:27 thirteen pkg_add: Added firefox-150.0->151.0.3
> 
> Does anyone have an explanation for what happened?
> Maybe there was a downgrade? Or some problem with the servers?
> 
> Thank you so much and have a nice.
> Luigi.
> 
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