How did the package become corrupt?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 31 08:33:11 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:12:26PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
> [dd]
> 
> > > Why was pkg's message so inarticulate? Why did it not say "file XXX is
> > > missing" or something more meaningful?
> > 
> > Because since the early day we are asking for users how we can improve our error
> > messages :) this is one of the case were we obviously can :) will be fixed in
> > 1.3.4
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I checked your package for tdb the binary /usr/local/bin/tdbdump is
> > > > in there.
> > > 
> > > I know it's there. Moreover, "pkg install -f tdb" fixed the problem.
> > > I can only suggest that something went wrong after the first 
> > > "pkg upgrade -f".
> > 
> > That would surprise me strongly
> 
> You cannot imagine how that surprised me :-) Unfortunately I don't
> have a screenlog, but I remember there having been some error messages
> about *samba34* directories missing during the "pkg upgrade -f"
> procedure.  I don't know if they are relevant.
> 
No they are irrelevant those messages are something we will be able to clean out
after end of support of pkg_install.

regards,
Bapt
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