From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 4 3:21:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (stampede.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108F515297 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 03:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca7-51.ix.netcom.com [209.109.235.51]) by stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA25850; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 03:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.6.9) id DAA68539; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 03:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 03:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904041019.DAA68539@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: silvia.hip.berkeley.edu: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <14175.923091383@zippy.cdrom.com> (jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami) References: <14175.923091383@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" * As long as that directory is not /var/db/pkg, where I put my package * information, I agree that it doesn't matter either. :-) Ok. I'll move it out then. * I'm not sure that this is a solution so much as a band-aid, however. Of course. It's more of a safety belt, to avoid having people shooting off their own toes. :> The real problem is that people try to track ports-current with a release system. There is no solution to that, that's why I'm providing a series of band-aids.... * I could record the version number of the system as it was when * sysinstall installed it (3.1-RELEASE, X.X-YYYYMMDD-CURRENT, etc) but * that's about it. Actually, as you may have read in another message, it seems the problem was caused by a failing install due to to /var/db/pkg missing from the mtree list. Since the release build uses installworld, there really isn't anything special you need to do. * Well, the fetch -A thing was another imprudent leap off the wire * without a net, I'm not sure I'd use it to aid my arguments if I were * you. :-) Aw, touche. But it's no fun leaping if there's a net! -W To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message