Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:42:35 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: matt@genesi-usa.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screwed ports tree/package database on my server Message-ID: <984903E1-1729-4837-B544-44294F8BA514@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <000101c68407$8ed29240$99dfdfdf@bakuhatsu.net> References: <000101c68407$8ed29240$99dfdfdf@bakuhatsu.net>
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On 31/05/2006, at 2:38 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: > > Hi > > I seem to have come across some serious corruption in the package > database > and/or tools by some method or other. > > The basic symptom is that dependencies reported by pkgdb -F are of the > form > > apache-2.2.2 -> Terminated > > These ports have empty directories in /var/db/pkg (no +COMMENTS or > +REQUIRED_BY > etc.) > > Every port I install tries to depend on apxs for some reason; isn't > this > the Apache module tool? Why would libiconv and so on require apxs? > Why would > lighttpd require it? Do you have any thing set in /etc/make.conf? Sometimes this kind of problem can be caused by misusing some internal ports variables.
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