Bug 283434

Summary: textproc/xmlcharent: upgrade (quarterly): pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed: entry already exists for `/usr/local/share/xml/xmlcharent/catalog' of type `CATALOG'
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Hiroki Sato <hrs>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Only Me Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (hrs)
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Version: Latest   
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Description Graham Perrin 2024-12-20 09:49:50 UTC 
From a typescript of an upgrade: 


[173/951] Extracting xmlcharent-0.3_2: 100%
xmlcatmgr: entry already exists for `/usr/local/share/xml/xmlcharent/catalog' of type `CATALOG'
xmlcatmgr: entry already exists for `/usr/local/share/xml/xmlcharent/catalog.xml' of type `nextCatalog'
pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed
Comment 1 Graham Perrin 2024-12-20 10:02:47 UTC 
Created attachment 255975 [details]
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2024-12-20_04-20-typescript.txt abbreviated for 283434.txt
is taken from my local record of the session:

2024-12-20_04-20-typescript.txt

The full typescript file (more than 68,000 lines) is available on request. 

In a nutshell: 


root@pkg:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU

14.1-RELEASE-p5
14.1-RELEASE-p5
13.3-RELEASE-p8
FreeBSD pkg 14.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC amd64 1401000 1303001
root@pkg:~ # /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install
…


– for userland to be at 14.1-RELEASE-p6. 

Then package upgrades. 

I was tempted to restart the OS before upgrading packages, however from <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/installation/#upgrade-binary> it seems (to me) that package upgrades may be attempted before a restart, so I experimented with this approach.
Comment 2 Graham Perrin 2024-12-20 10:36:13 UTC 
I should add: 


a) xmlcharent was amongst the packages to be reinstalled for the 
   change in ABI, with no change no to the version (0.3_2 in this case)

	xmlcharent-0.3_2 (ABI changed: 'freebsd:13:*' -> 'freebsd:14:*')


b) post-install scripts also failed for the port packages below.

iso8879-1986_3
sdocbook-xml-1.1_2
docbook-sgml-4.5_1
docbook-xml-5.0_3
docbook-xsl-1.79.1_1,1

I have no immediate plan to make reports for any of those five. Let's see how this bug 283434 progresses.

Thank you
Comment 3 Graham Perrin 2024-12-20 12:45:46 UTC 
Created attachment 255976 [details]
Screenshot: reproducing the issue

Re: comment #1

> … tempted to restart the OS before upgrading packages, …

It's a VirtualBox guest, so I tried that. 

The same symptom (pictured).