Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:15:19 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster and portmanager disagree Message-ID: <op.tpy1ftks9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20070329220052.GC11915@thought.org> References: <460C0997.7000104@freebsd.org> <1175196553.63404.2.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <460C2CD3.8030209@freebsd.org> <20070329220052.GC11915@thought.org>
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:52 -0500, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >> Robert Noland wrote: >> >On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:46 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >> >>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. >> > >> >I suspect that one of your /var/db/pkg entries is corrupt, try doing a >> >"pkg_info" and note any errors that get reported. Manually rebuild the >> >port with the corrupted entry and then try portmanager again. >> > >> >> Thanks for the response Robert, but unfortunately, pkg_info returns no >> errors. > > > Mark, > > I thought I was the only one with these symptoms. Very much > like the ones you describe, and pkg_info is no help. Similarly > with the other build/upgrade/fixit tools. After several weeks ' > of this, I've come to the conclusion that the upgrade side of > things is very busted. (****) Maybe you guys should stop use portmanager. I personal don't trust it. Cheers, Mezz > cheers! > > gary > >> >> Regards, >> >> Mark -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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