Outdated packages on AWS

mlerota

mlerota

Hi. Somehow packages on AWS instances are old. For example nginx package is on version 1.8.1_3,2 while on my other cloud providers I already have nginx-1.10.1,2. PKG on AWS is 1.7.2 while on others 1.8.5_1. Is there a way to check what's going on and use some other mirror?

Thanks
 
It sounds like your other cloud provider is configured to use the latest pkg repository and AWS uses the quarterly repository (the default since FreeBSD 10.2) hence the slightly out of date packages.

You can compare files in /etc/pkg/ and in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ (if it exists) on both servers.

To switch to the latest repository:
  • mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
  • echo 'FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" }' > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
 
Thanks. That solved the problem. Would it be wrong if I just changed /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf file?
(that config contains 'quarterly' string)
 
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