From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 23:56:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28E6106564A for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:56:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AE28FC15 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:56:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6ONuKcG072267; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:56:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id HKBReYprxuoG; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:56:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6ONuD14072262; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:56:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <48891697.707@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:56:07 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080719 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stevefranks@ieee.org References: <539c60b90807241547x6abefbaepc8ce9a84784b44d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90807241547x6abefbaepc8ce9a84784b44d5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:56:22 -0000 Steve Franks wrote: > I must be missing something obvious. About 25% of my dependencies > fail to install with errors like: > > "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file" > "pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed" > > system is 7.0/i386 > > Steve "info" is GNU-related. Any reason that GNU-stuff, esp. "info", wouldn't have been installed/built thus far? (I dunno, but, maybe a csup with the GNU stuff rejected or commented out ...) And anything these ports have in common (assuming they're all GNU for starters). They aren't Linuxolator stuff? Always ready to help grasp straws, Kevin Kinsey -- Zero Defects, n.: The result of shutting down a production line.