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Date:      Mon, 4 Sep 2006 01:17:01 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Various package/ports problems
Message-ID:  <20060904051701.GA11980@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060904013118.39145.qmail@web53412.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060904011651.GA8058@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060904013118.39145.qmail@web53412.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:31:18PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:=
36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway  wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jen=
nifer Nussbaum wrote:
> >=20
> >> Thanks, i CAN compile from the ports collection (i never wanted to use
> >>  packages). Its MANAGING this that i cant do. I can update my ports tr=
ee
> >> fine, and i can go into ports directory and do a make install, sure.
> >>=20
> >> But i cant do portsversion to see what needs updating, and i cant do
> >> pkg_info to find out what versions i have. So doing something like
>=20
> >Why not (in both cases)?As i posted in the original message - the main q=
uestion i was
> asking - both of these are broken in some way. Reposting:
>=20
> ---
>=20
> For example if i try to run "portversion" i get:
>=20
>   undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
>   /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error
>=20
> from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to date on the system).

pkgdb -f

>=20
> If i try to run "pkg_info" I quickly get:
>=20
>   pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*'
>=20
> (i googled for similar problems and there were a few other reports
>=20
> of this, with other packages, but no suggestion of how to fix them.)

Deinstall the package that was built for a later version of FreeBSD.

Kris
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