Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:49:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Robert S <robert.spam.me.senseless@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade, pkgdb hang Message-ID: <20050531164859.N36998@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <7093dffb05052718174bbd7524@mail.gmail.com> References: <7093dffb05052718174bbd7524@mail.gmail.com>
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You're not doing anything wrong. The pkgdb apparently has some major differences that is taking a large amount of time to reconcile. I had one machine that was way behind and took several hours to catch up. Run pkgdb and go to bed. :) Next day everything should be fine. On Sat, 28 May 2005, Robert S wrote: > I am a newcomer to freebsd and am still trying to get to grips with > package management. > > When I try to do a binary upgrade of a package it hangs. Recently I > tried to upgrade sylpheed-claws and nothing happened for 2 hours. I > got the following message: > > # portupgrade -v -P sylpheed-claws > ---> Session started at: Sat, 28 May 2005 08:53:35 +0000 > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 260 > packages found (-1 +7) (...) > > I get similar behaviour when I try to do pkgdb -F > > I am running through a proxy and have > PACKAGESITE="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/" > in my /etc/profile > > I assume that I'm doing something wrong. Can somebody help? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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