From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 14:53:02 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 D8F3216A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E85643D1D for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.84.3]) by out012.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040525215301.QRPU18295.out012.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Tue, 25 May 2004 16:53:01 -0500 Message-ID: <40B3BFB3.7020803@mac.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:50:43 -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: Christopher Nehren References: <40B38735.8080609@wcborstel.nl> <40B389E7.5070607@mac.com> <20040525212604.GA18853@prophecy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040525212604.GA18853@prophecy.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out012.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Tue, 25 May 2004 16:53:01 -0500 cc: freebsd Questions 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 21:53:03 -0000 Christopher Nehren wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 14:01:11 EDT, Chuck Swiger scribbled these > curious markings: "Elbereth"...? :-) >>>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 >> >>>Should I be worried about this? Or, how do I fix this? > > The messages are telling you that when you installed the package, BSDPAN > did register it into the package database, but it (obviously) has no > information about where from the ports tree you installed it; e.g., if > you installed DBI from the ports tree, its origin would be > databases/p5-DBI. The CPAN module is Perl's mechanism for updating itself, and thus is kept more up-to-date than the FreeBSD ports collection. The merits of customizing Perl more specificly for FreeBSD should be counterbalanced by the concern of modifying the behavior of a standard tool (similar to the concerns over archivers/gtar). > Why you're installing packages that are in the ports tree without using the > ports tree is beyond me. If you want it to be updated, send-pr with a > patch. Unfortunately, the maintainer of perl is currently AWOL. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61444 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62209 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65925 # from me... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=66782 -- -Chuck