Can't upgrade or reinstall p5-XML-Parser port after running
portupgrade -f
Wayne Sierke
ws+freebsd-current at au.dyndns.ws
Sat Mar 20 10:01:12 PST 2004
I've been running portupgrade -f on my ports after updating my system
from 5.2-RELEASE to 5.2-CURRENT. Most of them are done but
I was doing a portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser but it ended badly:
...
===> Registering installation for p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1
===> Cleaning for libtool-1.3.5_2
===> Cleaning for perl-5.8.2_5
===> Cleaning for expat-1.95.7
===> Cleaning for p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1
---> Cleaning out obsolete shared libraries
Cannot allocate memory
Hmm, so I went to try it again:
# portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser
** No such package 'p5-XML-Parser' is installed.
Hmm, ok let's install it:
# portinstall p5-XML-Parser
** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed)
! textproc/p5-XML-Parser (negative string size (or size too big))
Hmm, maybe we can start with the package and upgrade it from there:
# pkg_add -r p5-XML-Parser
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/Latest/p5-XML-Parser.tbz... Done.
pkg_add: package 'p5-XML-Parser-2.34' or its older version already installed
Hmm, ok, let's force the port install:
# portinstall -f p5-XML-Parser
** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed)
! textproc/p5-XML-Parser (negative string size (or size too big))
Hmm, ok, let's get some help:
(feel free to fill in this space!)
Thanks,
Wayne
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