When installing packages from a disabled repo with pkg install -r, the manpage suggests it should not respect the "active" status of the repo ('irrespective of the configured "active" status from repo.conf'), meaning it will install from disabled repos, however that is not the case: > # grep enabled /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf > enabled: no > > # pkg install -r FreeBSD openjdk > No repositories are enabled. Enabling the repo allows installation from it with -r.
# pkg info pkg pkg-1.8.7_1 Name : pkg Version : 1.8.7_1 Installed on : Thu Aug 4 13:55:40 2016 CEST Origin : ports-mgmt/pkg Architecture : freebsd:11:x86:64 Prefix : /usr/local Categories : ports-mgmt Licenses : BSD2CLAUSE Maintainer : pkg@FreeBSD.org WWW : http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng Comment : Package manager Shared Libs provided: libpkg.so.3 Annotations : repo_type : binary repository : Poudriere Flat size : 10.9MiB Description : Package management tool WWW: http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
Looking at the source code, it would appear that the manpage is wrong. For example, given repo is explicitly checked if enabled: * update: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/master/src/update.c#L69 * install falls through update: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/master/src/install.c#L197 Can we get some feedback here? If this is the intended behavior, then the solution is to correct the manpage. Thanks.
I'd like to bump this bug. It is pretty annoying in my use-case.
Any progress on this?
CC'ing bapt@ specifically, though I reckon he probably reads -pkg@ as well
fixed in pkg 2.0
This is no longer fixed: # pkg -v 2.3.1 # pkg repos -e you have mail pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended main-aarch64-default: { url : "file:///usr/local/poudriere/data/packages/main-aarch64-default", enabled : yes, priority : 0 } # pkg install -r FreeBSD-base -g FreeBSD-\* pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... FreeBSD-base is up to date. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) The most recent versions of packages are already installed Then, after enabling FreeBSD-base: # pkg repos -e pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended FreeBSD-base: { url : "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:16:aarch64/base_latest", enabled : yes, priority : 0, mirror_type : "SRV", signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS", fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkg" } main-aarch64-default: { url : "file:///usr/local/poudriere/data/packages/main-aarch64-default", enabled : yes, priority : 0 } # pkg install -r FreeBSD-base -g FreeBSD-\* pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... Fetching data.pkg: 100% 76 KiB 77.8kB/s 00:01 Processing entries: 100% FreeBSD-base repository update completed. 483 packages processed. FreeBSD-base is up to date. The following 29 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): Installed packages to be UPGRADED: FreeBSD-clibs: 16.snap20251024010824 -> 16.snap20251024161632 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-clibs-dev: 16.snap20251023111846 -> 16.snap20251024215907 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-examples: 16.snap20250929232442 -> 16.snap20251024215907 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-geom: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251024152405 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-ipfw: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251024215907 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-ipfw-dbg: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251024215907 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-kernel-generic: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-kernel-generic-dbg: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-kernel-generic-mmccam: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-kernel-generic-mmccam-dbg: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug-dbg: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-kernel-man: 16.snap20251022145025 -> 16.snap20251024215907 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-rescue: 16.snap20251022223035 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-src: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251024215907 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-src-sys: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-utilities: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-utilities-dbg: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-utilities-dbg-lib32: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-utilities-dev: 16.snap20251020111227 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-utilities-dev-lib32: 16.snap20251020111227 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-utilities-lib32: 16.snap20251024114208 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-zfs: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-zfs-dbg: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-zfs-dbg-lib32: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-zfs-dev: 16.snap20251020111227 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-zfs-dev-lib32: 16.snap20251020111227 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-zfs-lib: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] FreeBSD-zfs-lib32: 16.snap20251021082438 -> 16.snap20251025082352 [FreeBSD-base] Number of packages to be upgraded: 29 The process will require 16 MiB more space. 666 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
(In reply to Mark Millard from comment #7) Just a status note as of 15.0-RC1 being prepared: For REPONAME not enabled: it is still true that commands similar to: # pkg update -r REPONAME do not actually update the catalog for REPONAME. The 15.0 procedures and instructions are going to be based on handling that behavior.
See also: bug 289455