From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 7 08:48:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3440016A418; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from server1.tntpowerhost.com (server1.tntpowerhost.com [208.100.3.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F5613C428; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from [75.28.52.232] (helo=localhost) by server1.tntpowerhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IIKju-000ApN-Iv; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:48:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 03:48:28 -0500 From: Mark Kane To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20070807034828.1baa9b61@localhost> In-Reply-To: <46B6A35A.1040904@FreeBSD.org> References: <46B55E1C.3020601@FreeBSD.org> <20070805164308.252ff22d@localhost> <46B6A35A.1040904@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server1.tntpowerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [26 6] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - mkproductions.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP for portmaster users: Mandatory upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:48:30 -0000 On Sun, Aug 05, 2007, at 21:28:10 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > For the ones where there are still files in the pkg directory, > "corrupted" usually means that the permissions are wrong on those > files. Try this: > chown -R root:wheel /var/db/pkg > find /var/db/pkg -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; > find /var/db/pkg -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; > > That should fix you up. > [...] > For those ports I'm afraid the only way to reliably reproduce the pkg > data is to rebuild and reinstall. If you don't use too many weird > options you could probably get away with downloading the packages and > using the pkg data from those. Then the next time you use portmaster > to update those ports it will properly rebuild the pkgdep and > +REQUIRED_BY stuff. > > hope this helps, > > Doug The permissions change had no effect but reinstalling those ports seems to have worked fine :). Thanks! -Mark -- Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941)