portmaster and portmanager disagree

[Gary Kline]

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.   (****)

	cheers!

	gary

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
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