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Date:      Wed, 28 May 2008 18:48:21 -0400
From:      Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg_delete: package 'libvorbis-1.2.0,3' doesn't have a prefix
Message-ID:  <20080528224821.GB66364@it.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1212013311.33842.26.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
References:  <85B3D23B-90E4-467F-B1CA-F2C17A4F3589@langille.org> <20080528101008.GX92161@amilo.cenkes.org> <0EA7D07A-93A5-4D79-82EA-1F041D9DB89F@langille.org> <20080528140010.GA49092@it.ca> <50343A5C-FD3E-4D79-85FA-62C39B6F0A22@langille.org> <1212013311.33842.26.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>

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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:21:51AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Dan Langille p??e v st 28. 05. 2008 v 11:19 -0400:
> > [dan@ngaio:/var/db/pkg/libvorbis-1.2.0,3] $ ls -l
> > total 4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   32 May 28 03:11 +CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  137 May 28 03:02 +REQUIRED_BY
> > [dan@ngaio:/var/db/pkg/libvorbis-1.2.0,3] $
> 
> 32 byets of +CONTENTS file is awfully little. Can you paste the content
> of that file, for laughs? My copy of that +CONTENTS is over 10 kB...

I agree, that's too small.  :)

> You somehow winded up with "empty" package. Dunno why.

This has happened to me while /var ran out of disk while portupgrade was
running.  That can be hard to recover from, if you're missing your list
of origins.

I think the FORCE_PKG_REGISTER will be your recovery, but it would
definitely be good to find out what got you into this state.

-- 
  Paul Chvostek                                             <paul@it.ca>

  "To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light."
    - Thomas William Parsons



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