Joyent mirror appears broken

[timb-machine]

processing remote summary (https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Darwin/trunk/x86_64/All)...
pkgin: Could not fetch https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Darwin/trunk/x86_64/All/pkg_summary.gz

[jperkin]

Hey Tim, unfortunately there is currently an issue with the repository that means any attempt to upgrade could end up leaving users in a bad place. I've tried to make users aware of this by posting https://twitter.com/jperkin/status/1281253912717262850 and to the pkgsrc-users list, but have also temporarily removed the pkg_summary.* files to basically do what you've done, noticed it's broken and reached out so I can tell you about it.

Essentially if you run pkg_add mksh right now, then when the repository is restored in the next few days the upgrade should proceed smoothly as normal. Without running pkg_add mksh it's likely bad things will happen unfortunately.

Sorry for the problem, it's a rare issue related to the bootstrap packages changing for which there currently isn't a good workaround. Thankfully it's likely to be a one-time event so once everyone is past this it should be fine again.

[timb-machine]

@jperkin Ah, no worries. Thanks for your proactivity.

[jperkin]

This repository is now back online, please see https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2020/07/16/msg031767.html for further information. Thanks, and apologies again for the downtime.