From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 24 05:26:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2D807D1 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nschwmtas03p.mx.bigpond.com (nschwmtas03p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.189.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778C8A59 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nschwcmgw05p ([61.9.190.165]) by nschwmtas03p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20150324052633.UCVT23397.nschwmtas03p.mx.bigpond.com@nschwcmgw05p> for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:26:33 +0000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org ([120.146.8.15]) by nschwcmgw05p with BigPond Outbound id 7HSY1q0120KTh7401HSYwG; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:26:33 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=XNWyuHdE c=1 sm=1 a=4q38a75ucWZEoAuqF1Taiw==:17 a=IPki1kwjZaUA:10 a=wPDyFdB5xvgA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=jl1WCCbAAAAA:8 a=emO1SXQWCLwA:10 a=wBiFNjLls1aAb0NytMMA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=oRGrlLRogwYA:10 a=4q38a75ucWZEoAuqF1Taiw==:117 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t2O5QVGV012946 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:26:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id t2O5QV8m012943 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:26:31 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:26:30 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Fixing a busted ports area Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:26:41 -0000 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p10 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Feb 24 21:01:19 UTC 2015 The ports area is broken, due to what I guess was a mangled upgrade path from FreeBSD 8.x. For example, when installing cups-client, I get: pkg-static: pkgconf-0.9.7 conflicts with pkg-config-0.25_1 (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: /usr/local/bin/pkg-config *** [fake-pkg] Error code 70 It's not clear to me how to fix this. Is the simplest way to just remove (or move) /usr/ports, install it from CD, then upgrade? I have quite a few ports installed. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)