Sunday, April 15, 2018

Re: pkg_info -Q fails [OpenBSD 6.3 amd64/virtualbox]

Yes, I'd already remembered that myself.

⁣Sent from Blue ​

On 15 Apr 2018, 12:03, at 12:03, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <iam@juanfra.info> wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:19:50AM +0100, Jeffrey Joshua Rollin wrote:
>> No, it works fine with pkg_add, as I have repeatedly said, and a few
>months ago I did have a problem where a trailing slash caused problems
>with syspatch, which, without any pressure from me, I was informed
>would be fixed. The issue may simply be one of consistency, but looks
>more likely to be an error in the pkg_info script.
>>
>> So, to sum up:
>>
>> Pkg_add works;
>> Syspatch works;
>> Cloudflare was up last time I tried it;
>> Despite the above, pkg_info -Q does *not* work.
>
>Try this:
>
>$ su -l root
># echo 'https://fastly.cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/' > /etc/installurl
># unset PKG_PATH
># pkg_info -Q mate
>
>If fastly works, try with cloudflare again. BTW, we don't have a
>metapackage for mate.
>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> ⁣Sent from Blue ​
>>
>> On 15 Apr 2018, 03:26, at 03:26, Edgar Pettijohn
><edgar@pettijohn-web.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >On 04/14/18 19:34, Jeffrey Joshua Rollin wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sent from Blue <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=12687>
>> >> On 15 Apr 2018, at 00:31, Edgar Pettijohn <edgar@pettijohn-web.com
>> >> <mailto:edgar@pettijohn-web.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 04/14/18 15:08, Jeffrey Joshua Rollin wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi, I've installed OpenBSD 6.3-release for amd64 on
>> >> virtualbox, and updated it with syspatch as of 20:40 UTC.
>> >> pkg_info -Q seems to be failing. Specifically, I tried $
>> >> pkg_info -Q mate ...and also as root, to remind myself
>what
>> >> the metapackage is [I have a feeling it's just "mate"
>anyway]
>> >> [EDIT: Metapackages? maybe I'm thinking of FreeBSD]; but:
>> >> pkg_info -Q firefox also fails, despite the fact I just
>> >> successfully installed Firefox. The relevant error is as
>> >> follows: Redirected to
>> >>
>>
>>https://cloudflare.cdn.openbsd/org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/packages-stable/amd64
>> >>
>> >>
>> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >Your PKG_PATH appears to have a couple of errors.
>> >
>> >https://cloudflare.cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/packages/amd64
>> >
>> >and I can't remember but it may need to end with a `/'
>> >>
>> >> Can't locate object method "syslog" via package
>> >> "OpenBSD::PkgInfo::State" at
>> >> /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageRepository.pm
>> >> <http://PackageRepository.pm> line 302, <$fh> line 3.
>Thanks,
>> >> Jeff.
>> >>
>> >> edgar:7$ pkg_info -Q mate
>> >> checkmate-0.21
>> >> libmatekbd-1.20.0
>> >> libmatemixer-1.20.0
>> >> libmateweather-1.20.0
>> >> mate-calc-1.20.0
>> >> mate-control-center-1.20.0
>> >> mate-desktop-1.20.0
>> >> mate-icon-theme-1.20.0
>> >> mate-media-1.20.0
>> >> mate-menus-1.20.0
>> >> mate-notification-daemon-1.20.0
>> >> mate-panel-1.20.0
>> >> mate-power-manager-1.20.0
>> >> mate-screensaver-1.20.0
>> >> mate-session-manager-1.20.0
>> >> mate-settings-daemon-1.20.0
>> >> mate-terminal-1.20.0
>> >> mate-themes-3.22.15
>> >> mate-utils-1.20.0
>> >> sslmate-1.5.1p1
>> >> tmate-2.2.1p0
>> >>
>> >> I suspect its because
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>https://cloudflare.cdn.openbsd/org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/packages-stable/amd64
>> >>
>> >> doesn't exist or is down.
>> >>
>> >> It exists, and is unlikely to be a transient error,
>> >>
>> >> because I tried it several times, and as I said, was able
>> >>
>> >> to download software even though I couldn't query it.
>> >>
>> >> (I subsequently found a YouTube tutorial which listed
>> >>
>> >> most of the packages in your message.)
>> >>
>> >> I will try again, and/or with a different mirror in
>> >>
>> >> the morning.
>> >>
>> >> Jeff
>> >>
>
>--
>Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info

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