Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:50:43 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Strange pkg_info output Message-ID: <40B3BFB3.7020803@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040525212604.GA18853@prophecy.dyndns.org> References: <40B38735.8080609@wcborstel.nl> <40B389E7.5070607@mac.com> <20040525212604.GA18853@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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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
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