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

sorribouthat! on the lack of a Subject: line in my previous post! My bad.

On 6/1/20, Donald Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello, my good friends -
>
> I hope all are well!
>
> I did a synth update from my root user on my 12-STABLE system, with
> the following results:
I pulled down the source of the World again and my i3 mule labored
mightily much of the day yesterday and all night until almost 3 am
building World and Kernel. :) Installed both using Handbook
procedures.

Once again,
>
> 'portsnap fetch update' succeeded
>
> 'synth upgrade-system' failed. I ran it again, capturing the
output:
>
This process failed again with the same results as attached to my
previous message..

Thinking I might resolve the issue myself by using 'pkg install xyz', I
ran

pkg install doxygen >& doxygen_fail.txt (note: this is tcsh, not BASH!)

... and received the following results.

<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.

TIA, good Beasties! :D
-- 
Don Wilde
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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.