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Subject: Re: orphaned port?
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Michelle wrote:

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> Jens,
> Thank you for the help.  I did not have portupgrade installed and when I 
> tried to run make in /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade I received the 
> following error:
> 
> ===>  Installing for ruby-1.6.8.2003.04.19
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> ===>  Checking if lang/ruby16 already installed
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby16.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Is there another way I can fix my problem?

Hm, I don't know where this error comes from. Do you have write
access either to the ports tree or do you have DISTDIR and
WRKDIRPREFIX set properly? If not, see /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk
for more details.

Can you e-mail the output of 'pkg_info' and 'ls -l /var/db/pkg/'?

Thanks,
Jens