Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:23:25 -0400 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portmaster and portmanager disagree Message-ID: <1175207005.63404.21.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> In-Reply-To: <op.tpy1ftks9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org> <1175196553.63404.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <460C2CD3.8030209@freebsd.org> <20070329220052.GC11915@thought.org> <op.tpy1ftks9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:15 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:52 -0500, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> > wrote: > > > 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. (****) > > Maybe you guys should stop use portmanager. I personal don't trust it. I am the current maintainer of portmanager and I am not aware of any issues. The first post indicated he was also having issues with portmaster. What aspect is it that you do not trust? It does a complete dependency mapping to ensure that everything is in sync at any given point in time. robert. > Cheers, > Mezz > > > cheers! > > > > gary > > > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Mark > >
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