From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 22:00:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0861516A408 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D73C13C4BD for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2TM0qrH012236; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l2TM0q4d012235; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:00:52 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Mark Ovens Message-ID: <20070329220052.GC11915@thought.org> References: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org> <1175196553.63404.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <460C2CD3.8030209@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <460C2CD3.8030209@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster and portmanager disagree X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:00:11 -0000 On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: > >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. > > > > Thanks for the response Robert, but unfortunately, pkg_info returns no > errors. Mark, I thought I was the only one with these symptoms. Very much like the ones you describe, and pkg_info is no help. Similarly with the other build/upgrade/fixit tools. After several weeks ' of this, I've come to the conclusion that the upgrade side of things is very busted. (****) cheers! gary > > 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" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix