From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 7:49: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.simrad.no (mail.simrad.no [193.69.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D54137B406 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip.wiegand@simrad.com) From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Expiry-Date: Reply-To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Subject: pkg_add upgrade kit fails to install To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:48:38 -0700 Message-ID: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on S_INET01/S_EXT(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 29.08.2001 16:49:19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was about to install from the ports reportmagic and analog when I got an error: reportmagic-2.10 : Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. So I ran cvsup and updated my ports - but still got the same error. I then visited the fbsd web site and discovered I probably need the 4.2 to 4-STABLE upgrade kit. I downloaded it to /usr/ports/distfiles and ran pkg_add and got this message: simrad_4# pkg_add 42upgrade.tgz ./+INSTALL: cannot create /var/db/port.mkversion: directory nonexistent pkg_add: install script returned error status I am using FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000. Do I need to do a make world? I've not done that before, and this is a production box, so I'm a bit unsure about doing that. Any suggestions? -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services www.simradusa.com chip.wiegand@simrad.com Simrad, Inc Lynnwood, WA 425-712-1138 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 (-- Then why do I have nine? Somebody help me!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message