pkg update breaks pkg system

[Antonio Huete Jiménez]

Hi,

Can you point me to the relevant fixes upstream in pmwiki?

Thanks,
Antonio Huete

Quoting Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com>:

> Just a cautionary tale for people who actually run important stuff of
> DragonFly BSD servers like me.
>
> pkg update appears still to be broken. Lua issue
>
> dfly# uname -a
> DragonFly dfly.int.bagdala2.net 5.8-RELEASE DragonFly v5.8.3-RELEASE
> #29: Sun Sep 27 17:37:43 EDT 2020
> root at dfly.int.bagdala2.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC  x86_64
>
> dfly# openssl version
> LibreSSL 2.9.1
>
> dfly# pkg info openssl
> pkg: No package(s) matching openssl
>
> dfly# pkg which /usr/bin/openssl
> /usr/bin/openssl was not found in the database
>
> dfly# pkg info libressl
> libressl-3.2.3
>
> dfly# pkg info pkg
> pkg-1.16.1
>
>
> So yes I was able to upgrade pkg to 1.16.1 however due to the Lua error
> I stayed without working pkg tool. The fix was "easy"
>
> root at ........# cp /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf.sample
> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf
>
> per https://marc.info/?l=dragonfly-users&m=160949600225110&w=2
>
> however now I am stuck with broken server
>
> http://www.bagdala2.net/cdynsys/
>
> That garbage you guys see is due to the PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.4 upgrade. I
> think PHP 7.4 issue is fixed by PmWiki upstream but the version of
> PmWiki used by dports doesn't work with PHP 7.4. I was expected that the
> potential issues would be taken care of by FreeBSD PmWiki maintainer but
> apparently not.
>
> Is there way to downgrade PHP to 7.3 until the issue is fixed or should
> I go for a manual upgrade of PmWiki?
>
> I would appreciate any ideas at this point.
>
> Cheers,
> Predrag