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I encounter a problem with a newly created jail and pkg not being able to update. When I ran the following command:

pkg update -f

• I received the following message:
  

  No active remote repositories configured.
  

The problem was that there wasn't a FreeBSD.conf pkg repo configuration. After creating a new repo config file, I was able to update again.

• Create the pkg repo config file:
  

  vi /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
  

  • And add the following:
    

    FreeBSD: {
      url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
      mirror_type: "srv",
      signature_type: "fingerprints",
      fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
      enabled: yes
    }
    

Resources¶

• http://serverfault.com/questions/672710/freebsd-pkg-upgrade-not-working-for-jails-with-j-parameter
• https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1139