after pkgbasify – not finding all the repos?

If, after moving to pkgbase (for me, that was via pkgbasify), you discover you can’t find the package in question, you might, like me, run this command:

% pkg repos -e
[18:25 r720-02 dvl ~] % pkg repos -e
local: { 
    url             : "https://fedex.example.org/packages/FreeBSD:15:amd64/",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    signature_type  : "PUBKEY",
    pubkey          : "/etc/ssl/slocum.unixathome.org.cert"
  }

Not to worry, that’s my local repo. What’s missing there is pkgbase. When I compare this to another host, I saw:

[18:25 gw01 dvl ~] % pkg repos -e
FreeBSD-base: { 
    url             : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    mirror_type     : "SRV",
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15"
  }
local: { 
    url             : "http://fedex.int.example.org/packages/FreeBSD:15:amd64/",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    signature_type  : "PUBKEY",
    pubkey          : "/etc/ssl/slocum.unixathome.org.cert"
  }
[18:25 gw01 dvl ~] % sudoedit /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf 

Where is FreeBSD-base in the first host?

Checking:

[18:25 gw01 dvl ~] % cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf     
FreeBSD-ports: { enabled: no }
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: { enabled: no }

OK, I’ve disable those two, on purpose.

I had the same thing on r720-02

This took me a while to figure out. It was /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf, which contained:

REPOS_DIR               : [
  /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/,
]
BACKUP_LIBRARIES=yes

I’ve been using that approach for many years. It’s not the best. I’m now using the enabled: no approach instead.

My solution:

[18:35 r720-02 dvl /usr/local/etc] % sudo mv pkg.conf.sample pkg.conf

Now I have:

[18:36 r720-02 dvl /usr/local/etc] % pkg repos -e
FreeBSD-base: { 
    url             : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    mirror_type     : "SRV",
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15"
  }
local: { 
    url             : "https://fedex.unixathome.org/packages/FreeBSD:15:amd64/",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    signature_type  : "PUBKEY",
    pubkey          : "/etc/ssl/slocum.unixathome.org.cert"
  }

Success.