Re: pkgin repo change

[Eric Hawicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On 9/18/2018 4:37 AM, Pedro Pinho wrote:
> This morning trying to update/upgrade my system I got the following,
> |~$ sudo pkgin update Password: processing remote summary 
> (http://ftp.fr.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.0 pkgin: 
> Could not fetch 
> http://ftp.fr.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.0/All|
> Looking closer at the problem, I found that the repo has changed 
> yesterday at 06:25, and the correct URL should now be 
> http://ftp.fr.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.0_2018Q2/All/
>
> This is not an issue, as I only had to edit 
> /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf on my system and everything is 
> good again.
> I'm new to NetBSD and I'm wondering where/if such changes are usually 
> not announced.

That sounds to me like a "8.0" symlink was lost.  We have symlinks for 
various other releases, and 8.0 symlinks for other architectures, so I'm 
guessing this is just a mistake.
I'm cc'ing the pkgsrc releng team, who can probably do something to fix 
this.

Eric