From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 4 12:25:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (carlton.innotts.co.uk [212.56.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA919156EF for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 12:25:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robmel@innotts.co.uk) Received: from muffin.highwire.local (pool-1-p14.innotts.co.uk [212.56.33.14]) by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.9.0/8.9.0+RBL+Shub-Inter+ORBS) with ESMTP id UAA24676; Tue, 4 May 1999 20:25:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from [172.16.17.20] (robsmac.highwire.local [172.16.17.20]) by muffin.highwire.local (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA21328; Tue, 4 May 1999 20:22:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from robmel@innotts.co.uk) X-Sender: robmel@muffin.highwire.local Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <372993AD.38214E98@cyber.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:05:18 +0100 To: tetragon@cyber.com.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: Problems with packages. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:27 pm +0100 30/4/99, Gavan McCormack wrote: >It seems like FSR on my installation the package machanism has been >corrupted. Doing a pkg_info -a produces all the normal output of installed >packages (up to the point where it got screwed) and then at the end comes >back with: pkg_info: can't change directory to '/var/db/pkg/.mkversion'! You're OK. This isn't a corruption, it's an incomplete kludge. '.mkversion' is (now) used by the ports build process to check that the port isn't too new for your version of FreeBSD. I guess someone will soon make a small change to pkg_info to make it ignore this file. Regards Robin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk home: robmel@innotts.co.uk Pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~robmel (home page) http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt (substance misuse pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message