Problem with 'pkgdb -F'

Christopher Nehren apeiron+usenet at coitusmentis.info
Tue Apr 5 08:33:16 PDT 2005


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On 2005-04-05, Sergei Gnezdov scribbled these
curious markings:
> Here is the interaction with pkgdb.  If I start 'pkgdb -F' after
> running it once, the process will repeat itself.
>
> owl2-root % pkgdb -F
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> Stale origin: 'multimedia/nautilus-media': perhaps moved or obsoleted.
> -> The port 'multimedia/nautilus-media' was removed on 2005-03-12 because:

The first thing that you need to do is read UPDATING. The second thing
that you need to do is read UPDATING. The third thing that you need to
do you should know, because you've read UPDATING (but here's a hint, it
has something to do with nautilus-media). Not reading UPDATING is a very
good way of breaking your ports tree. I'm fairly certain that this is
(part of) the reason for why you've had so many problems.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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