new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports

[Steve Franks]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> Steve Franks wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Steve Franks wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I must be missing something obvious.  About 25% of my dependencies
>>>> fail to install with errors like:
>>>>
>>>> "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file"
>>>> "pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed"
>>>>
>>>> system is 7.0/i386
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>
>>> "info" is GNU-related.  Any reason that GNU-stuff, esp.
>>> "info", wouldn't have been installed/built thus far?
>>> (I dunno, but, maybe a csup with the GNU stuff rejected
>>> or commented out ...)
>>>
>>
>> All I did was a "developer" (not x developer) sysinstall off 7.0 disk
>> 1.  No tweaking, hacking, or extra packages until I got a clean boot
>> onto the new disk.  I'm somewhere between user and power user.  I have
>> 5 running freebsd systems under my belt, and was going to do my laptop
>> (I've given up on it several times already - bloody compaq).
>>
>>> And anything these ports have in common (assuming they're
>>> all GNU for starters).  They aren't Linuxolator stuff?
>>>
>>
>> Seems to me, they all use gnuinfo instead of manpages?  I don't even
>> know what gnuinfo is, nor linuxulator.
>>
>
> Right, GNU programs may have manpages, but they also have
> "info" pages which were developed by GNU as a replacement
> for the UNIX manual (I'm assuming based on past reading ...
> memory ain't all it used to be).
>
> "Linuxulator" or however it's spelled is just a colloquialism
> for the FreeBSD linux emulation.
>
> I've got few guesses for ya.  "Developer" package has documentation,
> correct?  Or not?
>
> What's "ls -ld /usr/local/info" give?
>
>> (!) Bison won't even install (makes fine, but install fails), and
>> that's pretty darn basic, no?
>>
>> Steve
>
> Yup, 'tis.  Tho' I figure someday BSD'ers would like to have
> their own implementation.  Again, just a guess.
>
> KDK
> --
> When all else fails, EAT!!!
>

Well,

No idea what the problem was, but portupgrade -aO ... <long babysit>
seems to have made it go away.

Steve