From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 00:29:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68138106566C for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5628FC0A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c8so1429015wra.27 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=fENUU8hL91BbM8Y8nn56ieVj1k3aO9r4qtt853eX9Hs=; b=LV+IMTWBCO0ccnbDDqRl9A1srf5GPDOnFNL3AwT3MRW/tvZO1n5Q94Itr1EudZjIm5 WC6f/YYCsVqXxQS3Ru5pjxvkw7+14+AEQh4xUOVNNWZg83tDgap67NdaZrEHrZWS6Qah i+VIXc704gypGLdy/0RLEQGnqK0ZCxwTgKaNI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=v/7bm+2zuqzKpjhhgRkQJEm/sC70AuXaqewmjkxxBWo3Dn3mvGeeTy57ldvizAzGbK NBdxQClX4C8Plr5lJlCb+aIbo4iGQ6pD/T+AvZGKdBH6QxRhPpk2ojZfIP8gWHerzX6j U5rHPfZe5XQTaUhzUAi348fWywoaEdSuhuyiQ= Received: by 10.90.87.7 with SMTP id k7mr1147824agb.115.1216945780409; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.50.13 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90807241729y6d88e899g5d2acd739c6ad65e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:40 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Kevin Kinsey" , "FreeBSD Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <48891697.707@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90807241547x6abefbaepc8ce9a84784b44d5@mail.gmail.com> <48891697.707@daleco.biz> X-Google-Sender-Auth: f6608a9503c5d1ca Cc: Subject: Re: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stevefranks@ieee.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:29:42 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Steve Franks wrote: >> >> I must be missing something obvious. About 25% of my dependencies >> fail to install with errors like: >> >> "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file" >> "pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed" >> >> system is 7.0/i386 >> >> Steve > > "info" is GNU-related. Any reason that GNU-stuff, esp. > "info", wouldn't have been installed/built thus far? > (I dunno, but, maybe a csup with the GNU stuff rejected > or commented out ...) > All I did was a "developer" (not x developer) sysinstall off 7.0 disk 1. No tweaking, hacking, or extra packages until I got a clean boot onto the new disk. I'm somewhere between user and power user. I have 5 running freebsd systems under my belt, and was going to do my laptop (I've given up on it several times already - bloody compaq). > And anything these ports have in common (assuming they're > all GNU for starters). They aren't Linuxolator stuff? > Seems to me, they all use gnuinfo instead of manpages? I don't even know what gnuinfo is, nor linuxulator. (!) Bison won't even install (makes fine, but install fails), and that's pretty darn basic, no? Steve