[Solved] Install FreeBSD package

[biggsy]

@stephenw10 said :

Any particular page?

Thanks, Steve. Sorry, it was getting late. This is what I was following.

I do know about the recommendation not to install FreeBSD packages. OpenBGPd has no dependencies - something I checked when I first installed it a few years ago.

I don't use OpenBGPd (or anything else) for "proper" BGP.
In my case, it's used to directly update a pfSense alias containing fail2ban'd IPs sent from my mail server. It's instantaneous and very low overhead.

[stephenw10]

Ah, that's fine then. You've obviously done the work in advance.

I mention the issues here because unfortunately there are many users who do not do the work and reap the consequences!

Yes, we could update that page to use a current example with the alternative file suffix.

Steve

[biggsy]

@stephenw10 said:

Yes, we could update that page to use a current example with the alternative file suffix.

Curiously, I couldn't find any FreeBSD documentation or discussion about that change of file extension. Still wondering whether I might have got something wrong. OpenBGPd is installed though.

[stephenw10]

If you run pkg -d update you'll see it tries both in current versions. I have no insight into the change though.

[biggsy]

So, I set /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf back to "no" and deleted the OpenBGPd pkg. Thanks for that tip, Steve. Although, I hadn't made a note of doing this originally but, after a few failed attempts, I went back to the pfSense documentation.

Tried this again after making the change:

pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd-5.2.20121209_4,1.txz

and the result was:

pkg: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd-5.2.20121209_4,1.txz: Not Found

Changed .txz to .pkg and it installed OK.

Might post a question on the FreeBSD forum.

[stephenw10]

If you specify the exact filename, as you must when using a different repo, then it will only use that. If you do something like pkg install nano the pkg system will try both file types. But only against the configured repo.

[biggsy]

Hi Steve,

Yes, in fact I tried the following variations:

pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/openbgpd.pkg

All returned "Not Found".

Edit: Same with "pkg install . . ."

[stephenw10]

Yup you need the precise file name including the build number to use pkg add.

[biggsy]

Yep, sorry, I misread your previous post.

Thanks again.

[biggsy]

Just to follow up on this, I found this post from Feb '22 on the FreeBSD forum:

"The extension for FreeBSD packages changed from .txz to .pkg recently. The static pkg tool in base still expects the old name.t"