Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:02:43 +0200 From: Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_version: the package info for package '...' is corrupt Message-ID: <515B4773.2020908@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <23068.1364934649@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <23068.1364934649@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On 4/2/2013 10:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Ok, first, my apologies to Leslie Jensen about the e-mail bounce. It is > nothing personal, believe me. I just have a personal policy of locally > blacklisting any and all domains that send me spam. (Apparently, at one > time or another, I received some spam from bjare.net.) I believe that > if _everybody_... or even just 10% of everybody... did as I do, then > ISPs would finally take seriously their spam outflow problems. (Most > of them don't at present, and that explains why there is so much spam.) > > Now, as regards to "pkg_version" versus "pkg version" I have never even > seen the latter, so I don't know a damn thing about that. Furthermore, > although there does appear to be an executable named /usr/sbin/pkg > present on my system, whatever the heck it is, it does not seem to have > any associated man page. :-( > > So anyway, I have never used it, I don't know what it even does, and I > would still not know how to use it, even if you held a gun to my head. > > Regarding Julien Laffaye comment(s) relating to "pkgng", I have also > never even heard of that before now. What is it and where do I get it? > And if it is so wonderful... and if what I am using is considered "old"... > then why isn't this new "pkgng" thing the default in/on 9.1-RELEASE? > (I also apparently have no man page for anything called "pkgng" on my > system.) https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng /usr/bin/pkg is the binary that will bootrap pkgng, installing the real binary and manpages. > > Anyway, athough I do thank both Leslie Jensen and Julien Laffaye for > their comments and attempts to help, I still am in DIRE need of an answer > to my original question. I have, apparently, over 50 of my installed > ports that pkg_version is now telling me are in some *unspecified way* > "corrupt" and I still need (and am desperately begging for) someone to > tell me how to resolve that problem, exactly. > > As I have said, I _do_ have a recent full system backup, but that doesn't > help me unless and until someone tells me which file or files from that, > exactly, I should be restoring in order to eliminate this problem. > > Could someone kindly do that, please? You can try ports-mgmt/portmaster, which has some options to try to repair the /var/db/pkg database. If the backup is fresh and you did not install new packages since, you can just copy the /var/db/pkg from the backup to the system (backup-ing the broken one, we never know, you might need it...) > > > Regards, > rfg > > > P.S. I do most seriously wonder if whoever engineered the FreeBSD ports > system ever realized how dramatically UNhelpful a message like the following > actually is: > > pkg_version: the package info for package 'evince-2.32.0_9' is corrupt > > I do not intend to offend anyone, but to be frank, this is the kind of a > message I would expect out of a Windows system, i.e. a message that some- > thing is broken, but providing -zero- details regarding what exactly is > broken, where it is located, or, most importantly, how to begin to fix the > problem. > > When I am using Windows, I _expect_ to be treated like a luser... i.e. > one who cannot be trusted with too much information. > > When I am using any kind of *NIX system however, I tend to expect the exact > opposite, and am rather unhappy when critical information is hidden from > me. > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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