Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:56:07 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion Message-ID: <E10SGnA-0005bh-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Satoshi Asami's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:47:06 -0800" <199903310247.SAA46577@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On 30 March 1999, Satoshi Asami proclaimed:
> Some of you may have stumbled upon bsd.port.mk complaining about the
> lack of said file even after a make world. This was caused by my
> mistake of forgetting to update src/share/mk at the same time I
> committed the check to bsd.port.mk.
>
> I have since corrected it so if you cvsup again and make world again
> (actually just "make install" in src/share/mk), all will be well. As
> a workaround, "echo 19990328 > /var/db/pkg/.mkversion" will work
> equally fine.
Just a side note; this new file breaks pkg_info. I've appended a simple
patch below; somebody ought to do something better for the version in
the src tree.
Whilst I'm here, a tip. If you use the zsh, here's command completion
for the some of the pkg commands:
compctl -g '/var/db/pkg/*(/:t)' pkg_delete pkg_info
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
"Value of 2 may go down as well as up"
-- FORTRAN programmers manual
diff -urP /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/perform.c pkg_install/info/perform.c
--- /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info/perform.c Mon Jan 4 06:15:40 1999
+++ pkg_install/info/perform.c Wed Mar 31 09:43:41 1999
@@ -135,8 +135,10 @@
return 1;
}
if (chdir(log_dir) == FAIL) {
- warnx("can't change directory to '%s'!", log_dir);
- return 1;
+ if (strcmp(log_dir, "/var/db/pkg/.mkversion") != 0) {
+ warnx("can't change directory to '%s'!", log_dir);
+ return 1;
+ }
}
installed = TRUE;
}
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