Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:22:17 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot install any port Message-ID: <20030728192217.GA66309@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030726052703.GA42396@dan.emsphone.com> References: <46021.121861-30410-1720054187-1059175905@seznam.cz> <20030726015449.G52327-100000@mx1.mat.unb.br> <20030726052703.GA42396@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:27:03AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > You sure? Are you failing with this error: > > ===> Checking if portd/portname already installed > *** Error code 1 > > This is almost certainly caused by an old pkg_info command that does > not understand -O. To disprove me: As I've posted before, the problem is not always as simple as it's made out to be. When I upgraded to 4.8-STABLE, I still got that error. It was because of a corrupt directory in /var/pkg/db, which was causing pkg_info -O to abort before finishing. Running the failing "pkg_info -O whatever" command by hand made the problem visible, and I deleted the bad directory. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Clearly there are more things in the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * heavens than anyone anticipated. -enp
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