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From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.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
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