Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:39:13 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Manuel Rabade - MiG <mig@mig-29.net>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange output in pkg_info and missing ports in pkg_version Message-ID: <20030826103913.GB37256@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030826032510.GB17286@mig-29.net> References: <20030826032510.GB17286@mig-29.net>
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:25:10PM -0500, Manuel Rabade - MiG wrote:
> Hi everyone, i have FreeBSD 4.8 on my machine and everything seems
> very well with my packages database, but yesterday i realized that
> some XFree packages where missing in pkg_version, and they apperd
> in pkg_info but without the new line character, i will show you:
>=20
> mig@mig:~$ pkg_info
> ...
> ...
> MuSE-0.8.1_1 Multiple Streaming Engine
> ORBit-0.5.17 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C lan=
guage
> ORBit2-2.6.3 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C lan=
guage
> OpenSSH-askpass-1.2.2.2001.02.24 Graphical password applet for entering S=
SH pass
> phrase
> XFree86-4.3.0,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/m=
eta-po
> XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_1 XFree86-4 font serverXFree86-Server-4.3.0_8 XF=
ree86-4
> X server and related programsXFree86-clients-4.3.0_2 XFree86-4 client pr=
ograms=20
> and related filesXFree86-documents-4.3.0 XFree86-4 documentationXFree86-f=
ont100d
> pi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fontsXFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 =
bitmap=20
> 75 dpi fontsXFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 XFree86-4 Cyrillic fontsXFree86-fo=
ntDefau
> ltBitmaps-4.3.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fontsXFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0=
XFree8
> 6-4 font encoding filesXFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 XFree86-4 scalable font=
sXFree8
> 6-libraries-4.3.0_5 XFree86-4 libraries and headersXaw3d-1.5 A =
3-D Ath
> ena Widget set that looks like Motif
> Xft-2.1.2 A client-sided font API for X applications
> aalib-1.4.r5_1 An ascii art library
> antiword-0.33 An application to display Microsoft(tm) Word files
> apache-1.3.28 The extremely popular Apache http server. Very fast,=
very =20
This was a bug in the ports system which resulted in newlines being
omitted from some of the package labels. If I remember correctly it
happened quite soon after 5.0 came out, with the second try at making
a switch from a separate pkg_comment file to having a COMMENT=3D
variable in the Makefile.
I believe it's quite harmless -- all it does is screw up the output of
pkg_info(1), the installed ports themselves work just fine.
A very heavy-handed way of fixing this (and profilgate of CPU cycles),
would be to simply re-install all of the XFree86 packages:
# portupgrade -fvi 'XFree86*'
However, I think you might be able to solve the problem a lot more
simply, just by adding a newline character at the end of the +COMMENT
files in /var/db/pkg/{pkgname} -- eg. for the core XFree86
distribution, that would be:
/var/db/pkg/XFree86-4.3.0,1/+COMMENT
A quick way of doing that is:
# cd /var/db/pkg
# perl -ni.bak -e 'chomp; print "$_\n";' XFree86-*/+COMMENT
Obviously, proceed with caution, make sure you have backups, yadda,
yadda. Remember to delete the .bak files when you're done.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
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