From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 20:04:13 2005 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 352B716A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:04:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bryan.maynard@reallm.com) Received: from hosting.sourcit.net (mail3.eitsolutions.net [68.23.20.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A016343D45 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:04:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bryan.maynard@reallm.com) Received: (qmail 17267 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2005 14:57:30 -0500 Received: from al1-24.207.169.154.charter-stl.com (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (24.207.169.154) by hosting.sourcit.net with SMTP; 2 Aug 2005 14:57:30 -0500 From: Bryan Maynard Organization: Sofos Nikitis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:56:33 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <000501c59781$656f8570$0200a8c0@satellite> <20050802193646.GA40174@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050802193646.GA40174@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508021456.34068.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> Subject: Re: package database corruption 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: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:04:13 -0000 On Tuesday 02 August 2005 07:36 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:44:05PM -0400, dave wrote: >> Hello, >> I've got a 5.4 box, that was working fine until it somehow lost >> it's correct date. A port upgrade was atempted while in this state >> then when it failed, it was handed off to me to fix. THe problem is >> in the f-prot-sig package, it's not updating it's either wanting v >> 20050705 or 20050730 it says 20050730 is install but a portversion >> -l "<" shows f-prot-sig still needing updating. I tried just >> updating that package with portupgrade f-prot-sig and it said the >> package wasn't updated because it was already marked as ignored. I'm >> hoping i don't have to uninstall and reinstall the packages on this >> box, any help appreciated. > >Make sure you updated your index (e.g. make fetchindex) before >updating ports, or portupgrade won't know which need to be updated. You could also give portsnap a go. It's under the ports collection. >Kris Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people.