gedit2-2.4.1_1
Kiel R Stirling
kiel at staff.pnc.com.au
Mon May 3 18:35:24 PDT 2004
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 18:08, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:50:29 +1000
> Kiel Stirling <kiel at staff.pnc.com.au> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 16:47, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 02:41, Ariane & Ron Joordens wrote:
> > > > Hello Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I have a corrupt package database. The +CONTENTS file in
> > > > /var/db/pkg/gedit2-2.4.1_1 is missing. I think that I can fix this in
> > > > two ways:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Reinstall gedit2-2.4.1_1. Unfortunately I have since cvsuped and the
> > > > gedit2 now available is gedit2-2.6. Could somebody email me the contents
> > > > of /usr/ports/editors/gedit2?
> > > >
> > > > 2. Copy the +CONTENTS file from another source. Could somebody email me
> > > > their +CONTENTS file?
> > >
> > > Just remove the bad /var/db/pkg directory, and upgrade all of your
> > > ports. Remember to read /usr/ports/UPDATING on how to properly upgrade
> > > GNOME.
> >
> > Are you insane ?? build for 10hrs to replace a +CONTENTS file. You must
> > be
>
> Well, you can thank this insane guy because his efforts makes you able
> to use that and many other ports.
> Please choose your words more carefully next time.
>
Noted however, I would expect better from the ports maintainer than to
advise the above. The idea of re building all ports to gain a +CONTENTS
file is truly bad advice. This would indeed fail due to the release of
gnome 2.6. Its all over the freebsd/gnome site not to blindly
portupgrade 2.4 to 2.6.
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