Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:46:47 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: portmaster and portmanager disagree Message-ID: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org>
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Tried updating all my ports - all 439 of them - sing ``portmanager -u''. Numerous failures, conflicts etc. as usual. Got most of them sorted but ``portmanager -s'' still reports a load as MISSING, but they aren't; the directories are in /var/db/pkg and the apps work. portmanager(1) builds and installs them (successfully), then immediately rebuilds and installs. It does this three times the gives up saying the builds are looping. Tried portmaster(1) instead using the style ``portmaster -p print/acroread''. Even though they are installed, it rebuilt and installed them (only once, so better than portmanager). However, ``portmanager -s'' *still* reports them as missing - argghh!! Is something screwed in my ports tree or /var/db/pkg? I'm getting so fed up of upgrading ports being a marathon exercise everytime I do it that I'm beginning to wonder if it's time to uninstall *every* port on my system, zap /usr/ports, and start again from scratch, but that's the Windows way, not the Unix way so I've so far resisted doing it. Any help in getting my system sorted out would be much appreciated. Regards, Mark
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