From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 22:23:34 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 3ACFD16A402; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:23:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@2hip.net) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F1613C4AD; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:23:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@2hip.net) Received: from [63.251.67.21] (rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com [63.251.67.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2TMNUCb085645 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:23:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rnoland@2hip.net) From: Robert Noland To: Jeremy Messenger In-Reply-To: References: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org> <1175196553.63404.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <460C2CD3.8030209@freebsd.org> <20070329220052.GC11915@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:23:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1175207005.63404.21.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Ovens 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 22:23:34 -0000 On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:15 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:52 -0500, Gary Kline > wrote: > > > 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. (****) > > Maybe you guys should stop use portmanager. I personal don't trust it. I am the current maintainer of portmanager and I am not aware of any issues. The first post indicated he was also having issues with portmaster. What aspect is it that you do not trust? It does a complete dependency mapping to ensure that everything is in sync at any given point in time. robert. > Cheers, > Mezz > > > cheers! > > > > gary > > > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Mark > >