Re: where does pkg_admin come from?

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 May 2024, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> I upgraded from 8.2 to 9.4
> To conserve space, I had to clean up obsolete libraries in /lib, by
> sparcstation is old and has a small disk)
> 
> whenI try to upgrade packages, i get this error:
> 
>  /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin: Shared object "libssl.so.12" not found
> 
> we are now at /usr/lib/libssl.so.14.0
> 
> where does pkg_admin come from? a set that did not install or is outdated or
> some of the pkg ?
> I cannot update/replpace packages because make_replace complains with
> pkg_admin error, but maybe I can find the beginning of this vicious loop.

Do you also have /usr/sbin/pkg_* ?

Your /usr/pkg/ versions are from the pkg_install package. Maybe just 
remove that package, maybe with:

 /usr/sbin/pkg_delete pkg_install