Hello all!
I'm writing this to report that since the last update (version 1.3.4_1) ports-mgmt/packagekit stopped working.
I noticed this due to sysutils/plasma6-discover not being able to update packages and reporting the following error:
Trying to launch the daemon manually gave me this output:
This symbol was introduced with the following commit: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=c1bec0f41c77fc68cf22eb48d5529f0254b2c9ea.
As a workaround I compiled PackageKit locally, commenting out the "pkg_set_ignore_osversion" line from /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/packagekit/files/patch-backends_freebsd_PackageDatabase.hpp:
so now PackageKit starts without problems:
and Discover works as expected (only for updates, obviously).
That said I wanted to ask: am I missing something or is this really a bug worth to report?
Thank you in advance.
I'm writing this to report that since the last update (version 1.3.4_1) ports-mgmt/packagekit stopped working.
I noticed this due to sysutils/plasma6-discover not being able to update packages and reporting the following error:
Code:
Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
Code:
# /usr/local/libexec/packagekitd -v
20:03:02 PackageKit Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
20:03:02 PackageKit daemon shutdown set to 300 seconds
20:03:02 PackageKit setting config file watch on /usr/local/etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf
20:03:02 PackageKit Trying to load : freebsd
20:03:02 PackageKit dlopening '/usr/local/lib/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_freebsd.so'
Failed to load the backend: opening module freebsd failed : /usr/local/lib/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_freebsd.so: Undefined symbol "pkg_set_ignore_osversion"
20:03:02 PackageKit already closed (nonfatal)As a workaround I compiled PackageKit locally, commenting out the "pkg_set_ignore_osversion" line from /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/packagekit/files/patch-backends_freebsd_PackageDatabase.hpp:
Code:
--- backends/freebsd/PackageDatabase.hpp.orig 2026-01-28 19:54:23 UTC
+++ backends/freebsd/PackageDatabase.hpp
@@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ class PackageDatabase { (private)
if (lockType != PKGDB_LOCK_READONLY)
pk_backend_job_set_locked (job, FALSE);
});
+
+ // We don't want libpkg to interactively ask us questions about OS
+ // versions mismatch. Provide a default "no" reply.
+ //pkg_set_ignore_osversion (FALSE); <===== Commented out line.
}
struct cleanup_cb
Code:
20:10:03 PackageKit Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
20:10:03 PackageKit daemon shutdown set to 300 seconds
20:10:03 PackageKit setting config file watch on /usr/local/etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf
20:10:03 PackageKit Trying to load : freebsd
20:10:03 PackageKit dlopening '/usr/local/lib/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_freebsd.so'
20:10:03 PackageKit trying to open database '/var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db'
20:10:03 PackageKit job count is now at 0
20:10:03 PackageKit PkEngine: acquired name: org.freedesktop.PackageKit
20:10:03 PackageKit failed to connect to logind: no such service
20:10:03 PackageKit CreateTransaction method called
20:10:03 PackageKit job count now 1
20:10:03 PackageKit trying to open database '/var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db'
20:10:03 PackageKit job count is now at 0
20:10:03 PackageKit transaction now new
20:10:03 PackageKit setting sender to :1.47
20:10:03 PackageKit adding transaction 0x3fba96461540
20:10:03 PackageKit sending object path: '/1_cabbcbba'
20:10:03 PackageKit notify::connected
20:10:03 PackageKit SetHints method called: supports-plural-signals=true
20:10:03 PackageKit Client has set supports-plural-signals=true
20:10:03 PackageKit GetUpdates method called
20:10:03 PackageKit transaction now ready
20:10:03 PackageKit changing transaction to exclusive mode
20:10:03 PackageKit 1 transactions in list, 1 committed but not finished
20:10:03 PackageKit transaction now running
20:10:03 PackageKit SetHints method called: supports-plural-signals=true
20:10:03 PackageKit Client has set supports-plural-signals=true
20:10:03 PackageKit install uid now 1001
20:10:03 PackageKit install cmdline now PackageKit: get-updates
20:10:03 PackageKit setting role for /1_cabbcbba to get-updates
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, protobuf;29.6,1;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Data interchange format library
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, perl5;5.42.1;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Practical Extraction and Report Language
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, py311-markdown;3.10.2;*;FreeBSD-ports, Python implementation of Markdown
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, py311-cryptography;46.0.5,1;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python developers
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, taglib;2.2;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Library for manipulating ID3 tags and Ogg comments
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, pciids;20260214;*;FreeBSD-ports, Database of all known IDs used in PCI devices
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, vlc;3.0.22_2,4;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Qt based multimedia player and streaming server
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, openjph;0.26.3;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Open-source implementation of JPEG2000 Part-15
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, android-tools;31.0.3p2.0_45;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Android debugging tools
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, libssh;0.11.4;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Library implementing the SSH2 protocol
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, firefox;148.0.2,2;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
20:10:06 PackageKit emit package normal, libaec;1.1.5;amd64;FreeBSD-ports, Adaptive entropy coding library
20:10:06 PackageKit backend was running for 2385 ms
20:10:06 PackageKit emitting finished 'success', 2385
20:10:06 PackageKit transaction now finished
20:10:06 PackageKit 1 transactions in list, 0 committed but not finished
20:10:09 PackageKit engine idle zero as 1 transactions in progress
20:10:09 PackageKit idle is 0That said I wanted to ask: am I missing something or is this really a bug worth to report?
Thank you in advance.