portmaster and portmanager disagree

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:52 -0500, Gary Kline <kline at 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


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