Re: duplicate PKGBASE entries

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2025-11-05 at 10:10 GMT, Andries Annema wrote:

> What I think has happened is, that - since the zone has been in use 
> for a couple of years now - a while ago I had to redo the bootstrap 
> kit when it migrated from joyent.com to smartos.org and likely that is 
> when some polution happened.

Ok, yeh, if you selected the wrong update kit then this would cause the 
problem.  Extracting the full kit results in pkgdb corruption as you are 
overwriting all of the binaries and pkgdb entries and ending up with 
duplicates, whereas the upgrade kit only updates the config files and 
PGP keys.

> I wonder though why this didn't surface earlier.

Earlier versions of pkgin and pkg_install didn't handle this situation 
as well, so I think you probably only recently updated to a newer set of 
tools that will correctly discover and warn about it.

> How well, it's all good now, thanks!

Good to hear!

Cheers,

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