From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 15:17:30 2003 Return-Path: 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 DA2C537B401 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-115-75-172.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.75.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435F443F93 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:17:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C8366BE5; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC1B4652; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 15:17:29 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jim Flowers Message-ID: <20030524221729.GC98834@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030524142346.M92078@ezo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030524142346.M92078@ezo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_create error help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 22:17:31 -0000 --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 09:39:03AM -0500, Jim Flowers wrote: > I run a number of FreeBSD 4.X servers going back to 4.4. When I download= a=20 > port that wasn't included in the release, it makes and make installs OK u= ntil=20 > I get the error below. Then I rm -r /var/db/pkg/portname to get rid of t= he=20 > partial record (else it causes reporting problems) and the port works fin= e. >=20 > Is there anything I can do to get around this without updating the OS (th= ese=20 > are production servers)? Looks like it is just a wrong parameter or a=20 > missing set of quotes wherever pkg_create is called from=20 > (/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk?). It's likely to do with a command-line option to pkg_create that is not present on FreeBSD 4.4. You'd have to either try updating the pkg_tools to newer code or hack bsd.port.mk to not use the newer option. Kris --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+z+95Wry0BWjoQKURAuS+AJ99xTrPut8WBHZfqUSDvNbwjhtfiACfcx7p Vb9IPn3DolecpnmG3w5VUbg= =y/2d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ--