From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 22:25:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCE437B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40ECD43FA3 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (localhost.marcuscom.com [127.0.0.1]) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6Q5PPX8018836; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:25:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost)h6Q5PPJH018833; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:25:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:25:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Leonardo Lazarte In-Reply-To: <20030726015449.G52327-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> Message-ID: <20030726012030.C18809@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20030726015449.G52327-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Tom=20Kraus?= cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot install any port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 05:25:28 -0000 On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Leonardo Lazarte wrote: > > Dear Tom, > > Unfortunately you have found a problem which those > in the know prefer to ignore. This is not true. Patches to fix this problem are currently being tested on the ports build cluster. I am also testing an alternate set of patches. > > The ports system has been broken with the last > upgrade, and many of us which have found the same > problem could not find a solution. Only for older versions of FreeBSD. FreeBSD 4.7 and greater do not have this problem. > > It has been suggested by some that you could copy > pkg_info from some newer version. Other person suggested > re-building pkg_install (in fact, it was incorrectly > suggested to build pkg_info), after cvsuping src. > Assuming that was done correctly, it should have worked. You would have needed to cvsup a version of pkg_install that had -O support for pkg_info. > I tried both, with no luck. > > I will go the hard way, re-installing the system, with > a new version. There are other options that were enumerated on this list as well as ports@. You could have reverted bsd.port.mk to an earlier version where pkg_info -O was not used. Joe > > As a side note, I mentioned that I have been using > FreeBSD for a decade (of course a rough estimate), and > have been corrected by very knowledgeble (sp?) people > in opposite directions. One said that FreeBSD was not > yet ten years old, other said it was ten years three > months. But still no help with a solution. > > Regards, > Leonardo > > Tom Kraus wrote: > > when I try to install any port, everything is looking OK, but after > > while I got message like this: > > > > ===> Checking if net/apinger already installed > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/net/apinger. > > > > ===> Checking if databases/mysql40-client already installed > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-client. > > > > Where could be problem? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc