After upgrade to 15.0: pkg doesn't work anymore

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Simon Matter

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Dec 3, 2025, 3:11:30 PM (2 days ago) Dec 3
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Hi,

I've upgraded a test server from 14.3 to 15.0 and ended up being unable to
upgrade packages with pkg. This is what I got:

# pkg update
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-ports repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database
pkg: packagesite URL error for
pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.conf -- pkg+://
implies SRV mirror type
pkg: packagesite URL error for
pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.txz -- pkg+://
implies SRV mirror type
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: packagesite URL error for
pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.pkg -- pkg+://
implies SRV mirror type
pkg: packagesite URL error for
pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.tzst -- pkg+://
implies SRV mirror type
pkg: packagesite URL error for
pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg --
pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
pkg: packagesite URL error for
pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.tzst --
pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!

Any help to fix this issue is much appreciated.

Regards,
Simon


Lexi Winter

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Dec 3, 2025, 3:22:50 PM (2 days ago) Dec 3
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Simon Matter wrote in <489496bf4acdf682187edbd68f0c8...@xxl.corp.invoca.ch>:
> I've upgraded a test server from 14.3 to 15.0 and ended up being unable to
> upgrade packages with pkg. This is what I got:
>
> pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.conf -- pkg+://
> implies SRV mirror type

this is probably caused by an override in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos for a
repository that doesn't exist in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf. the most likely
cause is the FreeBSD-ports repository, which was renamed from 'FreeBSD'.
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Simon Matter

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Dec 4, 2025, 4:38:34 AM (yesterday) Dec 4
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Thanks for your quick help, it was indeed the config you said.

Regards,
Simon


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