Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:29:13 -0400 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster and portmanager disagree Message-ID: <1175196553.63404.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> In-Reply-To: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org> References: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:46 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Tried updating all my ports - all 439 of them - sing ``portmanager -u''. > Numerous failures, conflicts etc. as usual. Got most of them sorted but > ``portmanager -s'' still reports a load as MISSING, but they aren't; the > directories are in /var/db/pkg and the apps work. I suspect that one of your /var/db/pkg entries is corrupt, try doing a "pkg_info" and note any errors that get reported. Manually rebuild the port with the corrupted entry and then try portmanager again. robert. > portmanager(1) builds and installs them (successfully), then immediately > rebuilds and installs. It does this three times the gives up saying the > builds are looping. > > Tried portmaster(1) instead using the style ``portmaster -p > print/acroread''. Even though they are installed, it rebuilt and > installed them (only once, so better than portmanager). > > However, ``portmanager -s'' *still* reports them as missing - argghh!! > > Is something screwed in my ports tree or /var/db/pkg? > > I'm getting so fed up of upgrading ports being a marathon exercise > everytime I do it that I'm beginning to wonder if it's time to uninstall > *every* port on my system, zap /usr/ports, and start again from scratch, > but that's the Windows way, not the Unix way so I've so far resisted > doing it. > > Any help in getting my system sorted out would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > > Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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