From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri May 14 11:51:55 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EAB16A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 14 May 2004 11:51:55 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCCC43D49
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 14 May 2004 11:51:53 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from kstewart@owt.com)
Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233])
	by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4EIpebI012228;
	Fri, 14 May 2004 11:51:40 -0700
From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:51:51 -0700
User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2
References: <BAY16-F104HJS3xGdw800021d3e@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY16-F104HJS3xGdw800021d3e@hotmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <200405141151.51127.kstewart@owt.com>
Subject: Re: Oddball package and portupgrade
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:51:55 -0000

On Friday 14 May 2004 11:37 am, Lord Sith wrote:
> I have a non standard package installed on a FreeBSD box. It is the
> FreeBSD version of Adaptec's RAID management software.
>
> I want to use portupgrade to manage the other packages and ports on
> that same server however portupgrade gets very upset about this
> non-standard package and refuses to run any command:
>
> myserver# portupgrade -an
> --->  Session started at: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:34:27 -0600
> adptfbsd_304: Not in due form: <name>-<version>
> --->  Session ended at: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:34:27 -0600 (consumed
> 00:00:00)
>
> I tried following the instructions in the man page by putting in a
> "+IGNOREME" into the package's directory (/var/db/pkg/adptfbsd_304/)
> but I still get the same error.
>
> How can I get portupgrade to ignore this installed package?

/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf has the following comment.

  # To completely hide the existence of a package, put a dummy file
  # named "+IGNOREME" in the package directory.

You might try adding that to /var/db/pkg for it and see what it does.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html