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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:40:19 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Erick Smith <desertfox@cableaz.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ports database problems
Message-ID:  <1061862018.5301.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200308251823.21722.desertfox@cableaz.com>
References:  <200308251823.21722.desertfox@cableaz.com>

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On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 21:23, Erick Smith wrote:
> I have a problem building ports on 2 of my machines.
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> This problem is new, and occured on each machine (at different times)=20
> following a problem with the ports database.  Maybe I screwed up the=20
> database?
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> Anyway, here's what I get:
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> =3D=3D=3D>  Installing for gettext-0.12.1
> =3D=3D=3D>   Generating temporary packing list
> =3D=3D=3D>  Checking if devel/gettext already installed
> *** Error code 1
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> This happens on any port build on both machines.  On one machine I've bee=
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> able to force installs using:
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> portinstall -f <insert port path here>
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> This seems to only work on only one machine though.
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> I'd really like to be able to cure this problem on both machines.  Any cl=
ues?

Technically, this shouldn't happen on FreeBSD 5.x.  However, I have
thought of a few reasons why.  First, with which user do you build
ports?  Can you send me the output of ls -ld /var/db/pkg (or whatever
your PKGDB is?  Can you send me the output of:

pkg_info -q -O devel/gettext

Thanks.

Joe

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> (Running FreeBSD-5.0 CURRENT on both machines)
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> Thanks,
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> Erick Smith
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