package info is corrupt
Dino Vliet
dino_vliet at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 23 16:20:26 UTC 2008
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
From: Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: package info is corrupt
To: dino_vliet at yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:55 PM
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Dino Vliet wrote:
> Hi freebsd peeps,
>
> Who can help me out with this problem I have with corrupted ports:
>
> # pkg_info | grep corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package 'cairomm-1.4.8_2' is
corrupt
> pkg_info: the package info for package
'gnome-system-monitor-2.22.1_1' is corrupt
[...]
>
> # cd cairomm-1.
> cairomm-1.4.8_2/ cairomm-1.6.4/
>
> I have two versions installed. The
>
> # cd cairomm-1.4.8_2/
> # ls -la
> total 52
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23 Apr 12 16:29 +COMMENT
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 54 Apr 12 16:29 +DESC
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17501 Apr 12 16:29 +MTREE_DIRS
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 21 09:36 .
> drwxr-xr-x 988 root wheel 28160 Sep 22 20:21 ..
>
> My system is a amd64 system running Freebsd.
> #uname -a:
>
> FreeBSD zouk.alice.nl 6.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #18: Thu Mar
20 21:01:24 CET 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL amd64
>
> How should I solve this issue?
>
> Brgds
> Dino
Hi Dino,
Please try the following command:
pkgdb -F
That command will walk you through the package database, asking you to
fix any problems it finds. If you run into any problems, please post a
follow-up to the list.
Regards,
Greg
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Well,
I tried your suggestion, but here it didn't do anything:
#pkgdb -F
---> Checking the package registry database
#
What now? I tried to deinstall one of them, but no luck:
[root at zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# pkg_deinstall gtkmm
** No matching package found.
[root at zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# cat +COMMENT
C++ wrapper for Gtk+, Pango, Atk
[root at zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# cat +DESC
C++ wrapper for Gtk+, Pango and Atk.
WWW: http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/
[root at zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]#
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