freebsd stable - Jun 2020 - Synth update-system again fails with recursive crash [Was: Re: ]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 05:06-0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
> <quote>
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> Updating Synth repository catalogue...
> pkg: file:///var/synth/live_packages/meta.txz: No such file or directory
> repository Synth has no meta file, using default settings
> pkg: file:///var/synth/live_packages/packagesite.txz: No such file or
directory
> Unable to update repository Synth
> Error updating repositories!
> </quote>
> 
> I am willing to live without an updated ports tree, but how can I
> resolve the issue with the Synth repo so I can use 'pkg install'? I
> only need to install a few dozen ports from source for my work, but
> not having pkg working is definitely a source of dismay.
Try: pkg repo /var/synth/live_packages

It could be that you system is so far back in the past that running 
synth just-build /pathname/to/packagelist && synth rebuild-repository 
is so much better.

I ran make -C /usr/ports/print/tex-dvipsk all-depends-list on one of 
my well-maintained systems, and graphviz didn't show up at all. I 
might have disabled something in some of the ports that in turn 
removes the need for graphviz.

-- 
Trond.

Interspersed.

On 6/2/20, Trond Endrest?l <trond.endrestol at ximalas.info>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 05:06-0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
>
[snipped]
>> I am willing to live without an updated ports tree, but how can I
>> resolve the issue with the Synth repo so I can use 'pkg
install'? I
>> only need to install a few dozen ports from source for my work, but
>> not having pkg working is definitely a source of dismay.
>
> Try: pkg repo /var/synth/live_packages
>
> It could be that you system is so far back in the past that running
> synth just-build /pathname/to/packagelist && synth
rebuild-repository
> is so much better.
Thanks for both suggestions, Trond. I only installed this 12.1 and
updated less than 2 weeks ago and I've run synth since that time. It
only failed yesterday after succeeding a few days
before.
>
> I ran make -C /usr/ports/print/tex-dvipsk all-depends-list on one of
> my well-maintained systems, and graphviz didn't show up at all. I
> might have disabled something in some of the ports that in turn
> removes the need for graphviz.
>
I will investigate. As I said earlier, it was putting the Handbook in
that caused the dependencies, I believe. I don't even have a GUI on
this system yet, so that was rather pointless (and, in fact, unneeded,
as this is intended to become a prototype for a headless server).

Thanks for your advice Trond, and I WILCO. :D
-- 
Don Wilde
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