Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:27:34 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade? Message-ID: <200503141527.35204.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F5B5D73201F347AC23137BB1560@phx.gbl> References: <BAY2-F5B5D73201F347AC23137BB1560@phx.gbl>
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On Monday 14 March 2005 03:16 pm, Lee Harr wrote: > > > I keep hearing great things about portmanager, but I have > > > not been able to run it... when I try, I get: > > > > > > > > > # portmanager -s > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >---- --- PMGRrStatus 0.2.9_3 info: Creating inital data bases > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >---- --- PMGRrVerifyContentsFile 0.2.9_3 error: could not open > > > /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2/+CONTENTS > > > system message: No such file or directory > > > Assertion failed: (0), function PMGRrVerifyContentsFile, file > > > PMGRrVerifyContentsFile.c,line 75. > > > Abort (core dumped) > > > > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > >Does /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2 exist on your system? If so > >does /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2/+CONTENTS exist? > > Ah... > > # ls -ld /var/db/pkg/mail* > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 15 21:43 > /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2 # ls -l /var/db/pkg/mailman-2.1.5_2 > total 0 > # pkg_info | grep mail > pkg_info: the package info for package 'mailman-2.1.5_2' is corrupt > > > I re-installed mailman and now portmanager is working. > > Still... seems like it should not dump core on the > corrupt package info. > > Thanks for your help. Your welcome. I'll take your suggestion and make a more informative message. Using pkg_info was a great idea, I'll use that for producing the message. :) -Mike
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