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Subject: Re: Problems creating port, pkg_info?
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On 15/07/06, Shaun Amott <shaun@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:46:42AM +0100, mal content wrote:
> >
> > On 15/07/06, mal content <artifact.one@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >The rest of the ports system works fine.
> >
> > I tell a lie, now all other ports refuse to build as they've suddenly
> > decided to start looking in /usr/local/sbin for the pkg_* tools. No
> > idea why, I didn't change anything.
> >
>
> What version of FreeBSD are you running?

I just upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE  but the problem still stands. I tried
to do a portupgrade and all appeared to be well until I realised that
it'd ploughed through about 10 packages and managed to destroy
their entries in the package db.

I don't understand how this can have happened.

MC