Attempting to update my packages failed with: % sudo pkg upgrade ... [10/19] Upgrading linux_base-c6 from 6.7_2 to 6.7_3... sysctl: unknown oid 'compat.linux.osrelease' linuxulator is not (kld)loaded, exiting pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed % It should be possible to upgrade the package w/o the linux kernel module loaded.
Hrm, I suspect this started happening after r415233.
Linux support is needed to run /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig to update /compat/linux/etc/ld.so.cache. There are other linux packages that run other tools during installation. Kernel linux support is required when installing linux packages. We cannot do much about that.
There are things we *could* do: - We could have some infrastructure that linux_base hooks into, in order to prevent the installation from starting rather than having it fail 75% of the way through (or prompt the user to kldload linux) - For this specific case (ld.so.cache) we could have a FreeBSD port of Linux ldconfig - We could queue post-install actions, and run them later It may well be that requiring linux.ko to be loaded for pkg installation is the only reasonable approach. But we provide a terrible user experience by aborting the installation part way through, and will need to find some way to address that.
We have version 6.10 This is surely out-of-date. So I am closing here.
This problem persists, with linux_base-c7 7.4.1708_6
Reopen,