From: Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: upcoming split of quirks
To: j@bitminer.ca
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 01:15:10 +0100

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 03:24:57PM -0400, j@bitminer.ca wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> You posted on tech@ back in November which I found after trying to upgrade
> -current from 26-Dec to today:
> 
> $ grep current /var/log/messages
> Dec 28 14:04:06 o75snap /bsd: OpenBSD 7.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #1567: Tue
> Dec 26 03:03:12 MST 2023
> Jan 10 20:42:56 o75snap /bsd: OpenBSD 7.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #1567: Tue
> Dec 26 03:03:12 MST 2023
> Jan 11 15:33:19 o75snap /bsd: OpenBSD 7.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #1567: Tue
> Dec 26 03:03:12 MST 2023
> Jan 14 13:18:57 o75snap /bsd: OpenBSD 7.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #1567: Tue
> Dec 26 03:03:12 MST 2023
> Jan 15 20:32:07 o75snap /bsd: OpenBSD 7.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #1567: Tue
> Dec 26 03:03:12 MST 2023
> Jan 19 11:22:22 o75snap sysupgrade: installed new /bsd.upgrade. Old kernel
> version: OpenBSD 7.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #1567: Tue Dec 26 03:03:12 MST
> 2023
> deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
> Jan 19 11:26:16 o75snap /bsd: OpenBSD 7.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #1609: Thu
> Jan 18 14:15:54 MST 2024
> 
> My problem: pkg_add -u produced
> 
> 
> Can't install quirks-6.206->7.0: can't resolve updatedb-0p0
> Can't find updatedb-0p0
> quirks-7.0 signed on 2024-01-19T16:21:04Z
> Couldn't find updates for blis-0.9.0 ghdl-3.0.0 quirks-6.206
> Couldn't install quirks-7.0 updatedb-0p0

looks like a "feed  issue" like your upstream doesn't have
updatedb-0.

> So, is this missing updatedb-0p0 actually a problem?  Or is there
> an imminent change coming?

Yes, it is (but a minor one)
I have zero idea how your mirror carries a recent quirks but no
updatedb.

The "minor one" part is that having no updatedb around means you
can't cache update information for pkg_add -U which makes the process
roughly 10 times slower.