Bug 263134

Summary:	print/latex-biber: Incompatible with biblatex version
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Stéphane D'Alu <sdalu>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	Tex Mailing List (Nobody) <tex>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	maja.reberc, rfcantao, rhurlin, tcberner
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-patch, needs-qa
Version:	Latest	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (tex)
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
See Also:	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263565

Description Stéphane D'Alu 2022-04-08 12:22:02 UTC

biber 2.17 is not compatible with installed version of biblatex (texlive-texmf-20210325)

Message:
Biber error: [174] Utils.pm:409> ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.7, expected version 3.8.

biber need to be downgraded to 2.16

Comment 1 rfcantao@gmail.com 2022-05-20 14:36:38 UTC

Same behavior here, after manually sorting out bug #263565. I'm gonna try downgrading biber, as suggested.

Comment 2 rfcantao@gmail.com 2022-05-20 19:28:04 UTC

Quick workaround that allowed me to compile my documents:

1. Clone the biblatex repo:

git clone https://github.com/plk/biblatex.git

2. Checkout the tag that will make biber happy:

git checkout tags/v3.17

3. Install biblatex locally (it takes precedence over system packages):

cd biblatex
obuild/build.sh install 3.17 ~/texmf

4. Run texhash.

5. Compile your document! I have cleaned all leftovers of previous compilations just to be sure.

Comment 3 Maja Reberc 2022-07-23 15:06:17 UTC

I can confirm the exact same behaviour after fixing bug #263565.

Comment 4 Tobias C. Berner freebsd_committer

2023-03-06 06:17:44 UTC

Moin moin 

This should have been fixed by 181675770fc9c3e4cd8440012c719657029038e8

mfg Tobias

Comment 5 rfcantao@gmail.com 2023-03-06 14:11:42 UTC

(In reply to Tobias C. Berner from comment #4)
My FreeBSD machine died, so I cannot test it right now, but thank you very much!