Strange Ports Error(pkg_info)

[Will Andrews]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:18:22PM +0000, Liam J. Foy wrote:
> FreeBSD liamfoy.ath.cx 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #8: Sat Jan 31 
> 12:47:41 GMT 2004     
> liamfoy at liamfoy.ath.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/Ecthelion  i386
> 
> My problem is:
> 
> ===>  Checking if net/gnet2 already installed
> pkg_info: illegal option -- O
> usage: pkg_info [-BbcDdFfIikLmNnpqRrSsVvh] [-e package] [-l prefix]
>                pkg-name [pkg-name ...]
>       pkg_info -a [flags]
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/gnet2.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> and this error seems to happen on the installment or all ports. I have 
> updated my ports a few times, and still I get this same error. I have 
> looked at other various resources, but found very little.
> 
> Thanks in advance...

Somehow you have an extremely old world.  pkg_info's -O option
was added for 4.6-RELEASE.

regards,
-- 
wca