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You can't know which mirror you got - maybe one that was late. For example, https://ftp2.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/ still has firefox 150. On Jun 10 10:19:00, [email protected] wrote: > Something a little strange happened to me on June 7th, so I'd like to > explain what happened because I can't find a plausible reason. > On June 7th, I uninstalled the Firefox package, as shown in the > following log lines in /var/log/messages. > > Jun 7 22:46:08 tredici /bsd: wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 > Jun 7 23:36:14 tredici pkg_delete: Removed firefox-i18n-it-150.0 > Jun 7 23:36:14 tredici pkg_delete: Removed firefox-151.0.3 > Jun 7 23:46:09 tredici reboot: rebooted by **** > > So, as you can see, I restarted the PC. > Upon reboot, I reinstalled Firefox, as can always be seen in the logs: > > Jun 7 23:47:00 tredici smartd[30933]: Device: /dev/sd0c [SAT], no ATA > CHECK POWER STATUS support, ignoring -n Directive > Jun 7 23:47:22 tredici reorder_kernel: kernel relinking done > Jun 7 23:48:55 tredici pkg_add: Added firefox-150.0 > Jun 7 23:48:58 tredici pkg_add: Added firefox-i18n-it-150.0 > Jun 8 00:00:01 tredici syslogd[99014]: restart > > But as you can see, the installation version is not the previous one. > As if there had been a downgrade. In fact, the previous version was > 151.0.3, but the new package was 150.0. > So I went to the repository with my browser... and found that the > version 150.0 package was in packages, but there was no update package > in packages-stable. > More precisely, version 150.0 was found at the following URL: > https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/packages/amd64/ > but in the folder where I believe the updates should be, namely: > > https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/packages-stable/amd64/ > > version 151.0.3 was not present. > I also used ftp commands along with grep to get further confirmation. > And indeed, there was no Firefox package in packages-stable. > Unfortunately, ksh doesn't have a timestamp in its history, so I can't > reconstruct exactly when I typed the ftp+grep commands. > The next day, to get further confirmation, I took snapshots on > archive.org at the following URL: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/packages-stable/amd64/ > > And it seems to me, but I'm not sure, that the package wasn't present > in the snapshot either. > However, rechecking the snapshot later, the package is present. So > either something strange is happening or I'm just very distracted and > made a mistake. > A few minutes ago, I tried removing Firefox again, restarting the PC, > and reinstalling the package, and I had no problems. The system > installed version 151.0.3. > I don't think there's anything else to add except that the package was > updated on June 9th: > > Jun 7 23:48:55 thirteen pkg_add: Added firefox-150.0 > Jun 7 23:48:58 thirteen pkg_add: Added firefox-i18n-it-150.0 > Jun 9 06:12:27 thirteen pkg_add: Added firefox-150.0->151.0.3 > > Does anyone have an explanation for what happened? > Maybe there was a downgrade? Or some problem with the servers? > > Thank you so much and have a nice. > Luigi. > >
