portmaster and portmanager disagree

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:15 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 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.

I am the current maintainer of portmanager and I am not aware of any
issues.  The first post indicated he was also having issues with
portmaster.

What aspect is it that you do not trust?  It does a complete dependency
mapping to ensure that everything is in sync at any given point in time.

robert.
 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > 	cheers!
> >
> > 	gary
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Mark
> 
>