pkg: Loading of plugin 'provides' failed

[Elimelech]

Removed pkg-provides (freeBSD 13.2):
# pkg remove pkg-provides
Now pkg doesn't work:

root@A9t:/home/luba # pkg update
pkg: Loading of plugin 'provides' failed: Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/pkg//provides.so"
pkg: Plugins cannot be loaded

My file in usr/local/etc/repos/FreeBSD.conf:

# $FreeBSD$
#
# To disable this repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
# create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file:
#
#   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
#   echo "FreeBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#

FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly/",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: no
}

What to do?

 

[T-Daemon]

What to do?

ports-mgmt/pkg-provides requires to enable plugins and set the plugin name in the system-wide pkg configuration file.

You forgot to remove the plugin from pkg.conf. If there are no other plugins, disable plugins entirely.

/usr/local/etc/pkg.conf

PKG_ENABLE_PLUGINS = true;
PLUGINS [ provides ];

#PKG_ENABLE_PLUGINS = true;
#PLUGINS [ ];

 

[UnixRocks]

So easy to forget after using it for many moons.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Side note:

url: "pkg+http://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/quarterly/",

You can change that to pkg+https … sorry, maybe not for 13.2.