Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:05:18 +0100 From: Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk> To: tetragon@cyber.com.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with packages. Message-ID: <l03130300b354f4bac28a@[172.16.17.20]> In-Reply-To: <372993AD.38214E98@cyber.com.au>
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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
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