FreeBSD’s pkg “No trusted fingerprint found matching package’s certificate”

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I just installed FreeBSD 10 and trying to get pkg going, but something isn't working:

# uname -a
FreeBSD  10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014     root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
# pkg
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: Y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest, please wait...
No trusted fingerprint found matching package's certificate
#

Any ideas?

Best Answer

If you have the ports tree installed, just make install clean from /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg.

If you don't have ports:

fetch "http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/Latest/pkg.txz"
setenv SIGNATURE_TYPE NONE
pkg add pkg.txz

If you're not using the default shell you might have to use set or export instead of setenv.

And now to rant about FreeBSD's idiotic decision to push a half baked, buggy piece of crapware to users when they just resolved critical issues found during their first release. I've never had so many issues with all the rest of FreeBSD (user since 4.x) as I have with the new pkg software. I can't even explain how disappointed I am with the lack of rigorous testing, particularly error handling and messages; lack of documentation (man pages are out of date, the handbook is terribly outdated); lack of a functional package system in the base install (only a bootstrap script is included in base, not the actual software). Seriously guys, WTF were you thinking?!

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