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Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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Tried your 'solution' on my newly installed 7.3 but the repository still has lots of missing programs when trying to add extra software, tried 2 days running.
(firefox-esr/firefox - mc - mpv - pysolfc).
Unfortunately 7.3 is (seems) 'broken', it installs OK, but can't install additional programs!
EDIT: Just to be clear, it seems like the repositories got changed between 7.3-BETA & 7.3 release, which caused the problems...
Tried your 'solution' on my newly installed 7.3 but the repository still has lots of missing programs when trying to add extra software, tried 2 days running.
(firefox-esr/firefox - mc - mpv - pysolfc).
Unfortunately 7.3 is 'broken', it installs OK, but can't install additional programs!
From my experience so far, OpenBSD 7.3 is not "broke"
The issue you are referring to seems to be firefox plus I guess mpv, that is a port and is maintained by a different group then OpenBSD core.
I am have no issues at all with firefox-esr, but I do not use mpv. I would guess it is a unveil issue or a security check failing. Check /etc/firefox-esr and maybe the ports doc in question in Directory /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes
Last edited by jmccue; 04-13-2023 at 11:16 AM.
Reason: grammer
is what I have and I had no issues using 'pkg_add -u'.
But the upgrade did fail for 2 packages, I forgot what the were but the error was something like "package removed from repository". I just did a pkg_delete(1) on those 2 packages, re-did pkg_add(1) and all went well.
Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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Tried....
/etc/resolve.conf - added a nameserver
ifconfig | grep AUTOCONF = ok
rcctl check dhcpleased = ok
rcctl check resolvd = ok
pkg_add -u = ok
pkg_check = ok
ping 8.8.8.8 = works
ping 199.185.178.80 = works (OpenBSD.org)
Problems with libcrypto & libssl = 'minor is too small'
Then you proceed to explicitly set PKG_PATH to override /etc/installurl
This, obviously, did not fix the problem - in fact it most likely created the next problem.
You mess around with nameservers, even adding the OpenBSD mirror as a nameserver...
Then you mention that
Code:
# pkg_add -u
actually worked?
Finally you have repository mismatch errors such as "minor is too small", so I would guess that you downloaded the wrong image to start with. i.e. what you downloaded and installed was not 7.3 amd64 as you seem to think.
I'm sorry, but based on this thread and the one on daemonforums.org, you just seem out of your depth.
Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by _blackhole_
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Finally you have repository mismatch errors such as "minor is too small", so I would guess that you downloaded the wrong image to start with. i.e. what you downloaded and installed was not 7.3 amd64 as you seem to think.
I'm sorry, but based on this thread and the one on daemonforums.org, you just seem out of your depth.
And now I believe I know what the problem is, & you are quite right, & I admit it, I was completely out of my depth with this problem - it seems that my '7.3' was in fact '7.3-BETA', & the repositories no longer worked with it....
Not exactly something one would think of!
Thanks for attempting to guide me through this problem all the same...
OpenBSD 7.3 arm64 installed successfully on a Raspberry Pi 4 onto a USB SSD (Samsung T7.) A change from installation onto SD card in an SD/USB adaptor as I've always done before on my RPis. It's nicely faster than 7.2 on the SD card.
Booting handled by U Boot on a micro SD card in the Pi's SD card slot.
Installation went smoothly. Two observations:
- The installer didn't include an option to enable xenodm. That has been included in the installer in the past, but I don't remember if that was only in the amd64 version or also in the arm64 version. I added that after to /etc/rc.conf.local.
- I was considering doing full disk encryption (not needed, just to give it a try), but although I decided against it, on reading I saw that guided FDE is in the installer for some architectures, but not in arm64 yet.
The only package I've added so far is another text editor (no DE yet, will give fvwm a try for awhile), so no reports on how packages are working.
OpenBSD 7.3 arm64 installed successfully on a Raspberry Pi 4 onto a USB SSD (Samsung T7.) A change from installation onto SD card in an SD/USB adaptor as I've always done before on my RPis. It's nicely faster than 7.2 on the SD card.
TKS
It should be faster for everyone or most because of SMP improvements and other syscall changes or improvements. It is faster on my laptop for sure.
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