Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:30:20 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0 Message-ID: <47F0147C.8070108@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47f012c0.vaeX6y/Ut1gA9Lko%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <47ef4464.8hmxyx8owvB7UAFk%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <47EF83E2.2000400@FreeBSD.org> <47f012c0.vaeX6y/Ut1gA9Lko%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> [trying to install linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz] it gave me some >>> sort of error about an unbalanced add operation. (I didn't try >>> to copy down all the details, figuring instead to retry with a >>> script(1) active so as to capture them.) Upon that retry, it now >>> tells me that the package is already installed, even though the >>> prior attempt failed. >>> ... >>> # ls -l linuxdoc* >>> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 9156 Feb 24 08:18 linuxdoc-1.1_1.tbz >>> # pkg_add -Kv linuxdoc* >>> Requested space: 36624 bytes, free space: 774981632 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.3DBbHN >>> pkg_add: package 'linuxdoc-1.1_1' or its older version already installed >>> pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed >> No idea, you'll have to recreate the failure and show us. > > Which failure are you referring to? The original one with the > unbalanced add message, or the new one where it claims the package is > already installed even though the previous installation reportedly > failed? > > I can recreate the second one any number of times, but absent some > specific suggestion it's not going to produce any more output than > shown above. (I'm already specifying -v.) Short of wiping the > drive and starting completely over, I have no idea how to go about > reproducing the original failure without first fixing the newer one. What you showed does not indicate a failure. If you are saying that the package wasn't actually installed completely, then pkg_delete it and retry. Kris
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