pkg broken on FreeBSD-12: "Newer FreeBSD version for package

[Alan Somers]

I have two FreeBSD 12-CURRENT amd64 systems that both refuse to install any
new packages. "pkg update -f" doesn't help. When I try, I get a confusing
error like this.

$ sudo pkg update -f
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: 100% 944 B 0.9kB/s 00:01
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 3.0MB/s 00:02
Processing entries: 0%
pkg: Newer FreeBSD version for package py27-sphinxcontrib-websupport:
- package: 1200058
- running kernel: 1200056
pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages for wrong OS version:
FreeBSD:12:amd64
Processing entries: 100%
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories

It's confusing because:
a) My running kernel actually is 1200058, as shown by "uname -K"
b) I don't have py27-sphinxcontrib-websupport installed, so what is it
complaining about?

Does anybody know what's going on?

-Alan

[Alan Somers]

Post by Alan Somers
I have two FreeBSD 12-CURRENT amd64 systems that both refuse to install
any new packages. "pkg update -f" doesn't help. When I try, I get a
confusing error like this.
$ sudo pkg update -f
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: 100% 944 B 0.9kB/s 00:01
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 3.0MB/s 00:02
Processing entries: 0%
- package: 1200058
- running kernel: 1200056
FreeBSD:12:amd64
Processing entries: 100%
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories
a) My running kernel actually is 1200058, as shown by "uname -K"
b) I don't have py27-sphinxcontrib-websupport installed, so what is it
complaining about?
Does anybody know what's going on?
-Alan

Nevermind. I found the workaround here. I still don't know why the error
message mentions "sphinxcontrib-websupport", though.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-February/068615.html