I don't know what the hell is going on with FreeBSD, but it seems like the policies now set in place are geared to develop trashy code, and push a trashy operating systems out as a "RELEASE", when the operating system is not in any way EVEN USABLE. Whoever is in charge needs to be FIRED, or needs to RESIGN!!! I can say this: 20 years ago, FreeBSD was NOT ALLOWED TO BE RELEASED WITH EVEN A SINGLE NOTICBLE FLAW!!! The entire release would be held back if even A SINGLE NOTICABLE THING WAS WRONG! And now? The display is totally fucked up! Artifact characters on the terminal (ncurses?), random displays of inverse "mouse" blocks (mouse driver?), scrollback fucked up (keeps scrolling when the buffer fills), zero functionality of vidcontrol, stuck to 30 lines and bad fonts, double-spacing on terminal mouse pastes, broken Xwindow - won't start up - segfaults, many-year-old USB/ATA drive panics that erase and/or corrupt dozens and 100s of files on drives - dozens+100s of STUPID Clang warnings on things like correct operator precedence - it seems that everything is being designed for retarded people! And NOW: pkg is TOTALLY FUCKED UP! And it's just great that no help or man-page describes how to get the pkg version number - or cites it - just fucking great. Luckily, it wasn't too hard to guess, but a user shouldn't have to guess what options are: pkg -v (undocumented) $ pkg -4d search xorg; pkg -4d update [I'll leaving the double spacing for the idiots that programmed it, why should I waste time covering up for idiots programmers at FreeBSD?] pkg -4d search xorg; pkg -4d update DBG(1)[79750]> pkg initialized pkg: Repository FreeBSD missing. 'pkg update' required DBG(1)[79750]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD DBG(1)[79750]> PkgRepo: need forced update of FreeBSD DBG(1)[79750]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite' DBG(1)[79751]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/meta.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79751]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/meta.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79751]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/meta.txz with opts "i4" pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/latest/meta.txz: No address record DBG(1)[79752]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/packagesite.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79752]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/packagesite.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79752]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/packagesite.txz with opts "i4" pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/latest/packagesite.txz: No address r ecord pkg: Repository FreeBSD cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required DBG(1)[79753]> pkg initialized Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... DBG(1)[79753]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD DBG(1)[79753]> PkgRepo: need forced update of FreeBSD DBG(1)[79753]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite' DBG(1)[79754]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/meta.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79754]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/meta.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79754]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/meta.txz with opts "i4" pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/latest/meta.txz: No address record repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings DBG(1)[79755]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/packagesite.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79755]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/packagesite.txz with opts "i4" DBG(1)[79755]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/late st/packagesite.txz with opts "i4" pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:i386/latest/packagesite.txz: No address r ecord Unable to update repository FreeBSD AND THIS REPEATS ENDLESSLY - IT'S COMPLETELY NON-FUNCTIONAL. It is possible to fetch(1) meta.txz - but that doesn't help anything. A user can't search or update - and bugs.freebsd.org is not so lynx friendly anymore - it's usable, but it's not friendly to lynx. It's difficult or impossible to know what means what when presented with lots of lines and checkboxes that don't have clear labels. Just more "progress" I guess - isn't that what kids call it today?
IIUC there was a bug in pkg 1.9 that only showed up when running on real hardware, not in a jail. 1.9.1 has already been issued to address the problem. Can you try that to see if it resolves that particular issue for you? As for the other issues, may I perhaps request that you address them on one of the mailing lists (perhaps advocacy@), or perhaps the forums? I'm not saying that you're not justified in making your observations, just that it is somewhat difficult to address them all in the somewhat constrained space of a single Problem Report. I think you deserve an answer, and promise that I will try to participate.
No response for over 6 months. Close, but will reopen if there is a new response.