From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 18:46:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B1137B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E92A43FE1 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 236E6A945; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:46:35 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB4B546E; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:46:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:46:35 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: Tom Parquette In-Reply-To: <3EA8890A.3010409@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: <20030425114509.O8900-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple of stuborn problems with my upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:46:37 -0000 On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Tom Parquette wrote: > I stepped down through /var/db/pkg and everything looked OK. Well the quick way to test is to run the same command as root...if you dont get the same error then it probably isn't permissions...and may be a missing file for example (in which case find a directory with no +COMMENT file). HTH, Andrew