From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 8 18:14:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBF416A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:14:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A8943D20 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:14:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsdQ0@richardshea.fastmail.fm) Received: from server2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28783469458; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:14:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 7115B7F419; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:14:38 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Richard Shea" To: "Chris Pressey" Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:14:38 +1300 X-Sasl-Enc: fXW0VO+dkLxxhmQHbLaXRg 1070936078 References: <20031208223913.CB7E875E7F@server2.messagingengine.com> <20031208145333.2f0dce5d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <20031208154039.53419c3c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20031208154039.53419c3c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Message-Id: <20031209021438.7115B7F419@server2.messagingengine.com> cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 02:14:44 -0000 On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:39 -0800, "Chris Pressey" said: > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 > "Richard Shea" wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:53:33 -0800, "Chris Pressey" > > said: > > > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:39:13 +1300 > > > "Richard Shea" wrote: > > > > > > > [of cvsupit weirdness] > > > > > > No clue as to what's going wrong, sorry. > > > > > > But you should probably be using cvsup (or cvsup-without-gui), as > > > IIRC cvsupit is obsolete. (It's not in my ports tree, anyway.) > > > > > Hmmm, OK ... I was working off ... > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > > > ... and re-reading that has answered part of my question ... > > > > > > If you do not know anything about CVSup at all and want a single > > package which will install it, set up the configuration file and start > > the transfer via a pointy-clicky type of interface, then get the > > net/cvsupit package. Just hand it to pkg_add(1) and it will lead you > > through the configuration process in a menu-oriented fashion. > > > > > > ... don't know if the doco is out of date ? > > Looks like it. According to the CVS logs, cvsupit was removed on May 6 > of this year: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/cvsupit/Attic/ > > > I may use something else > > in the future as you suggest but what I'm interested in initially is > > does this message ... > > > > ===> Generating temporary packing list > > ** Missing package files for cvsupit-3.1. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > ... mean the machine is in a good state or a bad state (.. ah, the > > eternal question :-) > > Hm, I would say a bad state, but not *very* bad. Looks like cvsupit is > partially installed? You might be able to fix it up by running > > pkg_delete cvsupit-3.1 > > which should delete any files that were installed by the cvsupit > package (and possibly give you some warnings when trying to delete ones > that weren't.) > That's a good idea, I hadn't thought of it. However strange stuff persists because when I tried that I got ... trinidad# pkg_delete cvsupit-3.1 pkg_delete: no such package 'cvsupit-3.1' installed ... - that's even though it just ran ! I then started looking in to the relevant ports directory and this is what I saw ... trinidad# pwd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit trinidad# ls work trinidad# cd work trinidad# ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 7 22:59 .build_done.cvsupit-3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 7 22:59 .configure_done.cvsupit-3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 7 22:59 .extract_done.cvsupit-3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 7 22:59 .patch_done.cvsupit-3.1 trinidad# ... I take it those files are used as a form of logging ? So on the one hand it's 'build_done' but on the other hand pkg_delete doesn't know about the package ! Just did a ... trinidad# find / -name "*vsupi*" -print ... and didn't find anything elsewhere in the system either ... All in all a bit of a mystery - anyone else fancy having a go at explaining what might have happened or what it all means ;-) regards richard.