From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 18 15:46:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cerberus.student.umd.edu (cerberus.student.umd.edu [129.2.178.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E5814EB3 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from glue.umd.edu (poseidon.student.umd.edu [129.2.179.31]) by cerberus.student.umd.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA91735; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:43:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <371A602E.F5771E22@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:43:58 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luc Morin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange message from pkg_info References: <371A502D.DC534E07@videotron.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same problem. I was missing the pkg directory, once I created it and hand-made .mkversion I stopped getting that. Though I still don't know why it was trying to cd to a file. -Brandon Luc Morin wrote: > > Hi all > > I updated my system on april 12, and I just noticed today that when I > query packages with pkg_info -a, I get the following message just before > the pkg information is printed: > > pkg_info: can't change directory to '/var/db/pkg/.mkversion'! > > isn't .mkversion just a regular file ? > > Any thoughts on this ? > > TIA > > -- > Luc Morin > Electrical Engineering Technologist > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- bfoz@starfleet.umd.edu "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message