Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:23:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Are Bryne <are.bryne@communique.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_info and 'make install' failures Message-ID: <20030717170139.N1185@david.i.communique.no>
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Hello, According to * ports/54407 Newer bsd.port.mk don't work on FBSD 4.6.2 or prior * ports/54475 due to changes in bsd.port.mk, ports no longer install on pre-4.7 releases. * ports/54561 all ports currently fail on FreeBSD 4.5 it seems quite a few people have problems installing FreeBSD ports, because port installation has started using pkg_info's -O parameter. I have also been affected, though in a slightly different way. I was suddenly experiencing exactly the same symptoms as described in the problem reports after having cvsup'ed to the current ports collection. However, the system was FreeBSD 4.7-p9, which should not have been affected, as the -O parameter was already built in to pkg_info. I upgraded the system to RELENG_4_8, to no avail. It turned out that the problem was an old version of misc/gnomehier. I had gnomehier-1.0_4 installed, and when trying to debug the situation, I found the following: With gnomehier-1.0_4 installed: %pkg_info -O graphics/sane-backends The following installed package(s) has graphics/sane-backends origin: pkg_info: /var/db/pkg/gnomehier-1.0_4/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory With gnomehier-1.0_4 updated to 1.0_8: %pkg_info -O graphics/sane-backends The following installed package(s) has graphics/sane-backends origin: sane-backends-1.0.12_1 And then all 'make install' commands work flawlessly. The problem with gnomehier, by the way, is that /var/db/pkg/gnomehier-1.0_4/ was empty except for the +REQUIRED_BY file. Does the noted pkg_info error message (which in fact shows up at the occurence of any non-empty subdirectory of /var/db/pkg that at the same time has no +CONTENTS file) warrant a problem report? As the message is not funneled through to the user running 'make install', it is not that easy to resolve the failing installs... Thanks in advance. Regards, Are Bryne -- Communiqué DA Office: +47 22 44 33 99 Postboks 9050 Grønland Mobile: +47 900 22 009 NO-0133 Oslo URL: http://www.communique.no
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