Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:50:54 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems Message-ID: <1E2A35C1-5B0A-4088-853C-213C654CA0E0@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060828161718.P67591@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20060828200137.26950.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com> <20060828161718.P67591@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports >> on it. in >> trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or >> ports system in a way i cant manage to fix. >> >> For example if i try to run "portversion" i get: >> >> undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass >> /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error >> >> from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to date on the system). >> >> If i try to run "pkg_info" I quickly get: >> >> pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*' >> >> (i googled for similar problems and there were a few other reports >> of this, with other packages, but no suggestion of how to fix them.) >> >> If i try to rebuild my ports index, I get >> >> gnopernicus-0.12.0: "/usr/ports/accessibility/gnome-speech" non- >> existent -- >> dependency list incomplete" >> >> and nothing will go further. >> >> How can i get all of this sorted? i was really hoping to be able >> to update >> most of this sytem but now i cant even get started to find out >> what needs it :-( >> >> Jen > > That is really quite an old version of FSBD. If possible, I think > you would be well served by updating to the latest version - 6.1 - > if possible. > > I may be wrong, but I do not believe that there is a lot of support > for that version anymore. > > -- > Gerard Seibert > gerard@seibercom.net > > Has anyone ever tasted an "end"? Are they really bitter? Version 4.x is no longer supported by FreeBSD at all. I suggest either reinstalling FreeBSD 5.4 or just install 6.1. -Garrett
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