Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 19:10:45 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: matthew@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "pkg: pkg is not installed" even after installing it Message-ID: <56931d35.1U3OAjwPQuA2rasY%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <56922538.7080105@FreeBSD.org> References: <5691d97a.VHZI0elGOQrdG7%2Be%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <56922538.7080105@FreeBSD.org>
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Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 10/01/2016 04:09, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > Why does it claim that pkg is not installed, when it just got through > > installing it? Or, if the install failed part way through, why was > > there no error message? ... > > What it seems you are missing is are writable /var/db/pkg/ and > /var/cache/pkg directories -- this are where pkg(8) holds its database > of what packages have been installed, and where it holds copies of the > package tarballs, respectively. > > It's definitely a bug that your procedure fails without any sort of > error message. There should be load complaints from pkg(8) that it > cannot initialize the database, but somehow those are not making it > through to your console. You should see some messages if you try > running: > > /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static add /usr/local/pkg/pkg.txz > > and that should show exactly what pkg(8) is having trouble with. That doesn't produce any output, either. However, after mounting tmpfs on /var/db/pkg and /var/cache, I got: # chroot -u 0 -g 0 -G 105,0,5,20,25 /mnt pkg-static add /usr/local/pkg/pkg.txz Installing pkg-1.5.4... Extracting pkg-1.5.4: 100% ldconfig: mkstemp(/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints.6wHhnd): Read-only file system pkg-static: POST-INSTALL script failed Message for pkg-1.5.4: If you are upgrading from the old package format, first run: # pkg2ng # chroot -u 0 -g 0 -G 105,0,5,20,25 /mnt pkg -N pkg: 1 packages installed This time it installed a bunch of stuff in /usr/local and a "local.sqlite" in /var/db/pkg -- but nothing in /var/cache, so maybe that isn't needed when installing from a tarball that is already local.
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