Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:00:52 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster and portmanager disagree Message-ID: <20070329220052.GC11915@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <460C2CD3.8030209@freebsd.org> References: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org> <1175196553.63404.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <460C2CD3.8030209@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: > >On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:46 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > >>Tried updating all my ports - all 439 of them - sing ``portmanager -u''. > >>Numerous failures, conflicts etc. as usual. Got most of them sorted but > >>``portmanager -s'' still reports a load as MISSING, but they aren't; the > >>directories are in /var/db/pkg and the apps work. > > > >I suspect that one of your /var/db/pkg entries is corrupt, try doing a > >"pkg_info" and note any errors that get reported. Manually rebuild the > >port with the corrupted entry and then try portmanager again. > > > > Thanks for the response Robert, but unfortunately, pkg_info returns no > errors. Mark, I thought I was the only one with these symptoms. Very much like the ones you describe, and pkg_info is no help. Similarly with the other build/upgrade/fixit tools. After several weeks ' of this, I've come to the conclusion that the upgrade side of things is very busted. (****) cheers! gary > > Regards, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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