Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:30:49 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_version: the package info for package '...' is corrupt Message-ID: <23068.1364934649@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <10955.1364893724@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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Ok, first, my apologies to Leslie Jensen about the e-mail bounce. It is
nothing personal, believe me. I just have a personal policy of locally
blacklisting any and all domains that send me spam. (Apparently, at one
time or another, I received some spam from bjare.net.) I believe that
if _everybody_... or even just 10% of everybody... did as I do, then
ISPs would finally take seriously their spam outflow problems. (Most
of them don't at present, and that explains why there is so much spam.)
Now, as regards to "pkg_version" versus "pkg version" I have never even
seen the latter, so I don't know a damn thing about that. Furthermore,
although there does appear to be an executable named /usr/sbin/pkg
present on my system, whatever the heck it is, it does not seem to have
any associated man page. :-(
So anyway, I have never used it, I don't know what it even does, and I
would still not know how to use it, even if you held a gun to my head.
Regarding Julien Laffaye comment(s) relating to "pkgng", I have also
never even heard of that before now. What is it and where do I get it?
And if it is so wonderful... and if what I am using is considered "old"...
then why isn't this new "pkgng" thing the default in/on 9.1-RELEASE?
(I also apparently have no man page for anything called "pkgng" on my
system.)
Anyway, athough I do thank both Leslie Jensen and Julien Laffaye for
their comments and attempts to help, I still am in DIRE need of an answer
to my original question. I have, apparently, over 50 of my installed
ports that pkg_version is now telling me are in some *unspecified way*
"corrupt" and I still need (and am desperately begging for) someone to
tell me how to resolve that problem, exactly.
As I have said, I _do_ have a recent full system backup, but that doesn't
help me unless and until someone tells me which file or files from that,
exactly, I should be restoring in order to eliminate this problem.
Could someone kindly do that, please?
Regards,
rfg
P.S. I do most seriously wonder if whoever engineered the FreeBSD ports
system ever realized how dramatically UNhelpful a message like the following
actually is:
pkg_version: the package info for package 'evince-2.32.0_9' is corrupt
I do not intend to offend anyone, but to be frank, this is the kind of a
message I would expect out of a Windows system, i.e. a message that some-
thing is broken, but providing -zero- details regarding what exactly is
broken, where it is located, or, most importantly, how to begin to fix the
problem.
When I am using Windows, I _expect_ to be treated like a luser... i.e.
one who cannot be trusted with too much information.
When I am using any kind of *NIX system however, I tend to expect the exact
opposite, and am rather unhappy when critical information is hidden from
me.
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