From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 21:49:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B027416A41C for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 21:49:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F92543D49 for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 21:49:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4VLnquR075321; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:49:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j4VLnqBl075315; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:49:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:49:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Robert S In-Reply-To: <7093dffb05052718174bbd7524@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050531164859.N36998@mail.goinet.com> References: <7093dffb05052718174bbd7524@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade, pkgdb hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:49:54 -0000 You're not doing anything wrong. The pkgdb apparently has some major differences that is taking a large amount of time to reconcile. I had one machine that was way behind and took several hours to catch up. Run pkgdb and go to bed. :) Next day everything should be fine. On Sat, 28 May 2005, Robert S wrote: > I am a newcomer to freebsd and am still trying to get to grips with > package management. > > When I try to do a binary upgrade of a package it hangs. Recently I > tried to upgrade sylpheed-claws and nothing happened for 2 hours. I > got the following message: > > # portupgrade -v -P sylpheed-claws > ---> Session started at: Sat, 28 May 2005 08:53:35 +0000 > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 260 > packages found (-1 +7) (...) > > I get similar behaviour when I try to do pkgdb -F > > I am running through a proxy and have > PACKAGESITE="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/" > in my /etc/profile > > I assume that I'm doing something wrong. Can somebody help? > _______________________________________________ > 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" >