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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:51:10 -0500
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: multiple versions of ports somehow installed. 
Message-ID:  <200112111851.fBBIpAd32419@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:42:19 PST." <200112111742.fBBHgJd20087@ptavv.es.net> 

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> > From: dochawk@psu.edu

> > fac13ttyp1:hawk>ls -l /usr/ports/INDEX
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1875832 Nov 19 09:48 /usr/ports/INDEX

> > This hasn't been touched since Nov 19, despite repeated attempts at 
> > portsdb -Uu

> > Also, according to the manpage, INDEX.db and INDEX.rbo should be here.  
> > They're not.

> > Shouldn't the missing files and inability to do anything cause an error?

> Wow. It looks like something REALLY messed things up on your
> system. Your analysis matches mine.

as the philosopher said, "swell"   :)

> The INDEX file looks OK. It should not be updated under normal
> circumstances. But you do need the other files which SHOULD be created
> by "portsdb -u" and I can't imagine what is failing.

> You might want to re-install ruby and then portupgrade, but that's
> just a shot in the dark. I suspect that you might have a current
> portupgrade and an old ruby.

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 15 12:49 /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.6.5.2001.10.05
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 15 12:36 /var/db/pkg/ruby-fnmatch-1.1b_1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 15 12:36 /var/db/pkg/ruby-optparse-0.8.4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 15 12:36 /var/db/pkg/ruby-uri-0.9,1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jun 24 22:02 /var/db/pkg/vim+ruby-6.0ae_1

I recall trouble with vim+ruby some time ago . . . 

I've deleted and made ruby and ruby-optparse, and portsdb again exits 
instantly.

I'm wondering if it's time to just flush all the ports, rm -rf /usr/
ports /usr/local, and start again . . . 


hawk


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