Solved Problem with poudriere and packages fetch

[thierry@]

Hello,
I have updated a poudriere jail to 15-CURRENT, and when I try to run `poudriere testport -b latest' it fails with this error:

[00:00:06] Package fetch: Looking for missing packages to fetch from pkg+[URL]http://pkg.freebsd.org/$[/URL]{ABI}/latest
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg-static: packagesite URL error for pkg+[URL]http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.conf[/URL] -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
pkg-static: packagesite URL error for pkg+[URL]http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.txz[/URL] -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
pkg-static: packagesite URL error for pkg+[URL]http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.pkg[/URL] -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
pkg-static: packagesite URL error for pkg+[URL]http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.tzst[/URL] -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
pkg-static: packagesite URL error for pkg+[URL]http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg[/URL] -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
pkg-static: packagesite URL error for pkg+[URL]http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.tzst[/URL] -- pkg+:// implies SRV mirror type
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!
[00:00:06] Package fetch: Not fetching as remote repository is unavailable.

This is poudriere-devel-3.4.99.20250601.
Pkg works outside of poudriere, and /usr/local/poudriere/jails/15amd64/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf is identical with /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.
It contains:

FreeBSD-ports: {
  url: "pkg+[URL]https://pkg.freebsd.org/$[/URL]{ABI}/latest",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}

Do you see anything wrong?

 

[SirDice]

This might have something to do with it:

C

Post in thread 'Packages not installing on FreeBSD 15-CURRENT'

Aug 30, 2025

Re: August 2025 stabilization week

3.  Still empty Pkg repo today: The official package repository is
currently almost empty.

• Charlie_

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But besides that, I do see a discrepancy, your FreeBSD.conf has a pkg+https:// URL but the poudriere logs show pkg+http://. Something's not adding up.

 

[thierry@]

Thanks, but it seems that I encounter another problem: the error does not say that it does not find some packages, as it is often the case with poudriere -b, but that it cannot find the repository.

 

[SirDice]

mirror_type should be set to 'SRV', which is correctly set in FreeBSD.conf, but combined with poudriere using pkg+http:// instead of pkg+https:// I'm thinking it's getting its repository information from somewhere else, and it's missing the mirror_type setting there.

Edit: Oh, check your /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf. Specifically PACKAGE_FETCH_URL. It's probably using that instead of whatever is set in FreeBSD.conf.

Set PACKAGE_FETCH_URL=http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/\${ABI} and the 'error' should disappear.

 

[thierry@]

Thanks, that did it!
Removing "pkg+" from the protocol in PACKAGE_FETCH_URL solved the problem.

 

[Erichans]

Set PACKAGE_FETCH_URL=http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/\${ABI} and the 'error' should disappear.

Do you know of any particular reason why that cannot or shouldn't be:
PACKAGE_FETCH_URL=https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/\${ABI}

 

[Erichans]

Removing "pkg+" from the protocol in PACKAGE_FETCH_URL solved the problem.

PR 288876 seems to report similar problems.

 

[SirDice]

Do you know of any particular reason why that cannot or shouldn't be:

None. The addition of pkg+ is the issue here, not http vs. https. pkg+ requires the mirror_type to be set to SRV, mirror_type defaults to NONE if it's not set.