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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:36:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      bruno schwander <bruno@tinkerbox.org>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem with the ports system ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307221036070.283-100000@duron.bschwand.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030722171602.GA42604@wopr.caltech.edu>

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I decided to upgrade to 4.8, hope the problem will go away...

thanks everybody !

bruno

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Matthew Hunt wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:47:44PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Are you running a release < 4.7?  If so, this is a known issue, and
> > patches are currently being tested to solve this.  In the meantime, you
> > can back down bsd.port.mk to its previous revision, and the problem will
> > go away.
> 
> For the record, I was having the same problem, since upgrading from
> 4.6-PRERELEASE to 4.8-STABLE yesterday.  This is despite having an
> up-to-date pkg_info that supports -O.
> 
> Investigation revealed...
> 
> $ /usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O archivers/unarj
> pkg_info: package 8hz-mp3-0.2b has no origin recorded
> pkg_info: /var/db/pkg/Mesa-3.0b6/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory
> 
> An rm -rf /var/db/pkg/Mesa-3.0b6 "fixed" the problem, and ports now
> install normally.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules.
> http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           *
> 



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