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Todo #10464

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Don't change the current update repo when new releases are available

Added by Craig Leres almost 4 years ago. Updated 4 months ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Low
Category:
Upgrade
Target version:
Start date:
04/16/2020
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
23.09
Release Notes:
Force Exclusion

Description

I use a SG-1100 that was running 2.4.4-p3 and I noticed today there were updates for a couple of packages I had installed (acme and bind). I updated these and then noticed that a system update (2.4.5) was available. I attempted to install the update (via the gui) but it failed (see update.log). Additional attempts failed early in the process. I logged in and found that pkg was broken due libcryptoauth.so.3 not being available.

I think my mistake was that I updated packages and got the 2.4.5 version of pkg (or updated some other package) so that pkg or some shared library was linked against libcryptoauth.so.3 which was not present in my pre-upgrade 2.4.4-p3 box.

Would not allowing package updates when a system update is available would prevent this type of foot shootery?

To recover I replaced /usr/bin/pkg /usr/local/sbin/pkg with /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static and /usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo.conf with pfSense-repo-244.descr (since it appears that upgrading unconditionally replaces the symlink pfSense.conf in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos with a link to /usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense-repo.conf. Then I performed the upgrade from the serial console. Afterwards I verified that the files I updated had been replaced.


Related issues

Related to Bug #11452: pkg breakage related to yet to be installed 21.02 base systemDuplicate02/18/2021

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