hosed the jdk15 port in the pkg db

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 04/18/05 11:47 AM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed:
> Hey fellow FreeBSD users.
> 
> I've just returned from a week off, and must have left my brain in
> Orlando, because I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix this
> problem.
> 
> Upon my return, I upgraded my ports tree, and noticed that portaudit
> had several new packages listed with security issues.  Including
> jdk1.5 and portupgrade.
> 
> Well, as usual, I unset JAVA_HOME and ran the portupgrade on jdk and
> several other packages listed.  As always, I used the -RN flags to
> make sure any dependencies were upgraded as well.  I saved the
> majority of packages to upgrade a little at a time.
> 
> They all went off without a hitch, except for the jdk15 port.  The
> portupgrade port upgraded first, but I don't imagine the new tool is
> the one used in the subsequent upgrades.  Normally, I upgrade
> portupgrade first on its own, but this time I didn't.
> 
> Now, I have several stale dependencies for the jdk15 port.  The jdk
> itself is there, but it's not registered.  I tried to force the
> upgrade (portupgrade -fN) but it fails saying that
> /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java is already registered - but not the
> package.  I then tried pkg_info -W /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java, but
> it comes back with no output.  pkg_which simply returns a '?'.
> 
> pkgdb -u doesn't seem to do anything.
> 
> So I've somehow bonked something quite thoroughly.  Any suggestions on
> how best to fix this - preferably without deleting all or most of the
> packages I have installed?


It turns out this wasn't a problem in the pkgdb at all.  There was
some kind of problem unregistering the java vm during the uninstall of
the old jdk15 package.  I finally realized that the output from the
install was referring to a java vm registration, not a package
registration:

registervm: error: JavaVM "/usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java" is already registered

When I realized this, I ran
# unregistervm /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java
then `make install` from /usr/ports/java/jdk15/ and everything worked.

Lou
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