Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:40 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Kevin Kinsey" <kdk@daleco.biz>, "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports Message-ID: <539c60b90807241729y6d88e899g5d2acd739c6ad65e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48891697.707@daleco.biz> References: <539c60b90807241547x6abefbaepc8ce9a84784b44d5@mail.gmail.com> <48891697.707@daleco.biz>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > Steve Franks wrote: >> >> I must be missing something obvious. About 25% of my dependencies >> fail to install with errors like: >> >> "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file" >> "pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed" >> >> system is 7.0/i386 >> >> Steve > > "info" is GNU-related. Any reason that GNU-stuff, esp. > "info", wouldn't have been installed/built thus far? > (I dunno, but, maybe a csup with the GNU stuff rejected > or commented out ...) > All I did was a "developer" (not x developer) sysinstall off 7.0 disk 1. No tweaking, hacking, or extra packages until I got a clean boot onto the new disk. I'm somewhere between user and power user. I have 5 running freebsd systems under my belt, and was going to do my laptop (I've given up on it several times already - bloody compaq). > And anything these ports have in common (assuming they're > all GNU for starters). They aren't Linuxolator stuff? > Seems to me, they all use gnuinfo instead of manpages? I don't even know what gnuinfo is, nor linuxulator. (!) Bison won't even install (makes fine, but install fails), and that's pretty darn basic, no? Steve
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