From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 23:38:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC44216A418 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3F5313C457 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 20565 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2007 23:38:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@71.147.41.29 with login) by smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2007 23:38:43 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: NvU27qkVM1nJVsHmJCOagMSmvpV5Vv5GInNAMhVNKhFDODXyEdUE4W89dAFerS9KwfeZcrFNpQ-- Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0A0B869; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:38:42 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LgR8vg5OMJBh; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:38:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.152] (unknown [192.168.0.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77624B868; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:38:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <46F305DE.8040407@mikestammer.com> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:44:30 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <46F1ABAA.9080704@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port comparison failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:38:45 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Eric wrote: > >> Anyone have a way to fix this: >> >> >> Building new INDEX files... done. >> portconf-1.2 ! Comparison failed >> portmaster-1.9 ! Comparison failed > > Version 1.9 is really old, we're up to version 1.20 now. Are you sure > your port tree is up to date? > >> it happens when i run portsnap and then get new ports via: >> >> pkg_version -v | grep \< > > I can't think of any reason that wouldn't work, which leads me to > believe that you've got bigger "issues" lurking somewhere. > >> i tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the ports above but it >> didnt fix the issue. > > I assume that after you reinstalled portmaster that you had version 1.20? > >> I use portmaster to update ports. I do not have any other port >> management tool installed. > > Before I wrote the -L feature for portmaster, I used to use 'pkg_version > -v -L=' as an alias to find out what needed rebuilding. Assuming you're > using version 1.20 of portmaster, you might want to check the man page > and try the -L option to see if portmaster can find the problem. > > hth, > > Doug > somehow i had /var/db/pkg entries for 1.9 and 1.20. I deleted the 1.9. thanks for the info. things seem to look good now Eric