Bind package upgrades pkg

[dsmith10]

I installed the bind package and after that my package interface ( installed and available ) stopped working.

Reading through forums and doing a bit of digging I sumised that pkg had been upgraded, and sure enough

Aug  1 18:53:27 london-gw-apu pkg: pkg upgraded: 1.7.2_2 -> 1.8.7
Aug  1 18:53:37 london-gw-apu pkg: pfsense-bind910-9.10.4P2 installed
Aug  1 18:53:38 london-gw-apu php: /etc/rc.packages: Beginning package installation for bind .
Aug  1 18:53:39 london-gw-apu check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
Aug  1 18:53:39 london-gw-apu check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
Aug  1 18:53:40 london-gw-apu php-fpm[10606]: /rc.filter_synchronize: Beginning XMLRPC sync to http://192.168.20.3:8080.
Aug  1 18:53:40 london-gw-apu php-fpm[10606]: /rc.filter_synchronize: XMLRPC sync successfully completed with http://192.168.20.3:8080.
Aug  1 18:53:41 london-gw-apu php-fpm[14997]: /rc.filter_synchronize: Beginning XMLRPC sync to http://192.168.20.3:8080.
Aug  1 18:53:43 london-gw-apu check_reload_status: Syncing firewall
Aug  1 18:53:43 london-gw-apu php: /etc/rc.packages: Successfully installed package: bind.
Aug  1 18:53:43 london-gw-apu pkg: pfSense-pkg-bind-9.10_8 installed
Aug  1 18:53:44 london-gw-apu check_reload_status: Reloading filter
Aug  1 18:53:44 london-gw-apu check_reload_status: Starting packages
Aug  1 18:53:45 london-gw-apu xinetd[32241]: Starting reconfiguration

I'm going to try the instructions to reinstall 1.7.2 manually, but should this happen and is there anything we can do to stop it ?

[dsmith10]

So I solved this by upgrading from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2, as that clearly uses pkg 1.8.7, which is probably why this happened ?

Anyway still seems a bit odd that installing a package will break pkg completly.

[dotdash]

There were some notes on it in another post- when the pkg version was behind you could do a 'pkg lock pkg' to prevent the pkg manager from getting updated and breaking everything.