From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 11:52:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 9CE9C16A4DA for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: from web53415.mail.yahoo.com (web53415.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20A9543D49 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:52:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 78119 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Sep 2006 11:52:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=LEZYHCrfWddBiWOESjC1YzsK0o7OOmYvK9/G/00TLhZHFXEJi33AlkLI2VzRDTZFVKoQsDgNe6h/n+isdQz5oZlpBINQ9Isivt/bWbfthTB5FewHrbUUO4aYxiXl+YS0Gs3ibx0qtYUMq7anRkpxuh7BaNxa2GX2F1fjAatS8pU= ; Message-ID: <20060904115208.78117.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [166.84.1.2] by web53415.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:52:08 PDT Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 04:52:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20060904051701.GA11980@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Gerard Seibert , FreeBSD-Questions , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:52:09 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:31:18PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > >> Thanks, i CAN compile from the ports collection (i never wanted to use > >> packages). Its MANAGING this that i cant do. I can update my ports tree > >> fine, and i can go into ports directory and do a make install, sure. > >> > >> But i cant do portsversion to see what needs updating, and i cant do > >> pkg_info to find out what versions i have. So doing something like > > >Why not (in both cases)?As i posted in the original message - the main question i was > asking - both of these are broken in some way. Reposting: > > --- > > For example if i try to run "portversion" i get: > > undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass > /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error > > from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to date on the system). :> pkgdb -f ~ $ sudo pkgdb -f ~ $ portversion undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-freebsd4] Abort trap (core dumped) ~ $ > > If i try to run "pkg_info" I quickly get: > > pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*' :> Deinstall the package that was built for a later version of :> FreeBSD. KrisHow do i tell which this is? Most of this box seems to be compiled from ports, not installed packages. apache+ipv6 is not installed. ~ $ pkg_info ImageMagick-nox11-6.0.2.7 Image processing tools analog-6.0_1,1 An extremely fast program for analysing WWW logfiles pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*' ~ I rebuilt analog from ports but that doesnt seem to be it. Thanks for your continued help. Jen --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business.