Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:41:58 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: why do I need to run pkg_glob as root? Message-ID: <20060317214158.GA17455@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060317205825.GC75135@iib.unsam.edu.ar> References: <20060317205825.GC75135@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:58:25PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> [fernan@omega] pkg_glob -R x11-toolkits/gtkmm24
> ** You do not own /var/db/pkg. (use -f to force or run as root)
> Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ
>=20
> Of course I do not own /var/db/pkg ... but I can read it!
>=20
> [fernan@omega] ls -ld /var/db/pkg
> drwxr-xr-x 483 root wheel 13824 Mar 17 17:52 /var/db/pkg
>=20
> I can even get a list of required packages for gtkmm24 just
> by doing something like:
> grep pkgdep /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.8.3_2/+CONTENTS | awk '{print $2}'
>=20
> so why can't pkg_glob?
Because it needs to write to /var/db/pkg to first update the index
(which is apparently out of date on your machine). If you don't mind
that it working with a stale index (i.e. not representing the true
state of your installed packages), you can use -f per the message you
quoted.
Kris
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