From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 10:36:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1151037B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tinkerbox.org (adsl-64-168-139-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.168.139.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BB043F75 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bruno@tinkerbox.org) Received: from [192.168.137.4] (unknown [192.168.137.4]) by mail.tinkerbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC951ACE; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:36:49 -0700 (PDT) From: bruno schwander X-Sender: bruno@duron.bschwand.net To: Matthew Hunt In-Reply-To: <20030722171602.GA42604@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with the ports system ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:36:50 -0000 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 * Science rules. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * >