Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:25:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Leonardo Lazarte <llazarte@mat.unb.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot install any port Message-ID: <20030726012030.C18809@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030726015449.G52327-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> References: <20030726015449.G52327-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br>
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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
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