From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 8 18:24:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from istari.home.net (cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com [24.3.25.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0D314EF2 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjr@home.net) Received: (from sjr@localhost) by istari.home.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00311; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:21:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sjr) Message-Id: <199904090121.VAA00311@istari.home.net> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:21:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" Subject: Re: pkg_info error? To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990408054351.A57856@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 8 Apr, David O'Brien wrote: >> When I run "pkg_info -aI", I get the following error: >> >> pkg_info: can't change directory to '/var/db/pkg/.mkversion'! > > You might be running pkg_* tools that are older than your ports/Mk/ > files. Funny if this is true... this type of problem is what > `.mkversion' was to fix. :-) > > BTW, `.mkversion' has been moved to /var/db. Manually move > /var/db/pkg/.mkversion to /var/db/.mkversion, and get the latest > ports/Mk/ files. > > >Sorry... make that > > mv /var/db/pkg/.mkversion /var/db/port.mkversion > >(I had the new filename wrong) This must be a planned change. I just supped (4/8 ~2000 EDT) and /usr/src/share/mk still references the /var/db/pkg directory.... [bsd.port.mk references both for now....] -- Stephen J. Roznowski (sjr@home.net) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message