Solved `pkg` is broken in jails after upgrading: "repository meta has wrong version"

[Kay]

Recently I upgraded from 11.1 to 11.3, and also upgraded the jails too, per ezjail doc. BTW I use ezjail to create and manage all my jails.

Now the problem is `pkg` commands all fail inside the jails. Commands I tried inside the jail:

* `pkg install curl`
* `pkg udpate -f`
* `pkg-static upgrade -f pkg`

They all fail with:

[root@chicken ~]$ pkg-static upgrade -f pkg
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg-static: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
pkg-static: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0
[chicken] Fetching meta.txz: 100%    916 B   0.9kB/s    00:01
pkg-static: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
[chicken] Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB   1.3MB/s    00:05
pkg-static: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
pkg-static: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0
Unable to open created repository FreeBSD
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!

A few observations:

• Inside the jail, `pkg -v` gives `1.10.5`
• in the host, `pkg -v` give `1.13.2`
• inside jail AND on the host, `uname -UK` both give `1103000 1103000`

 

[trev]

See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-update-error.74260/

 

[Kay]

See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-update-error.74260/

Thanks. Got it working after reading the last two replies on that thread. Basically:

pkg remove -f pkg  # forcefully remove pkg
pkg bootstrap -f  # reinstall pkg

# `-f` is a MUST, otherwise `pkg install` will fail due to `curl not found`
pkg update -f 
pkg install curl