From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 11:03:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9D016A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 11:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D2543D54 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 11:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.84.3]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040525180328.WQES3317.out006.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Tue, 25 May 2004 13:03:28 -0500 Message-ID: <40B389E7.5070607@mac.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:01:11 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorn Argelo , freebsd Questions References: <40B38735.8080609@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <40B38735.8080609@wcborstel.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Tue, 25 May 2004 13:03:28 -0500 Subject: Re: Strange pkg_info output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:03:48 -0000 Jorn Argelo wrote: > Recently I came across something which kind of bothered me. Every time > when pkg_info removes and/or registers a package it gives this output: > > pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBD-mysql-2.9003 has no origin recorded > pkg_info: package bsdpan-DBI-1.42 has no origin recorded > pkg_info: package bsdpan-GD-1.19 has no origin recorded I've seen the same type of messages either when updating a Perl module using CPAN, or now when using perl-5.8.4 (via local modification to the port). > Should I be worried about this? Or, how do I fix this? The messages are annoying but mostly harmless. I suspect that the package dependency information is no longer reliable, however, but if you are already updating Perl software past the versions currently in the ports repository, hopefully you know what you are doing. :-) I would be interested in a fix for this as well, however. -- -Chuck