Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:38:33 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> Cc: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fixing a busted ports area Message-ID: <CAN6yY1uCGzyo_djoHp8abGJ4eD_6XuFS1Rc5gDh=9qwpgaO45w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66d2890a12752bb48480766ae2c19596@ultimatedns.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1503241622170.9777@aneurin.horsfall.org> <66d2890a12752bb48480766ae2c19596@ultimatedns.net>
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:26:30 +1100 (EST) Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> > wrote > > > 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. > You haven't been too specific as to your upgrade path. > But sometimes it's as easy as changing to the offending > ports folder, and issuing a make deinstall. Then attempting > whatever upgrade procedure you following at the time of the > incident. > However, if this same type of error persists unreasonably. > You may require more drastic measures, to overcome the issue(s). > > --Chris > > You rally need to check out /usr/ports/UPDATING. Take a look at 20120726 If you are making this big a jump, you will likely hit a few more of these, -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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