problem with the ports system ?

[Matthew Hunt]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:47:44PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> Are you running a release < 4.7?  If so, this is a known issue, and
> patches are currently being tested to solve this.  In the meantime, you
> can back down bsd.port.mk to its previous revision, and the problem will
> go away.

For the record, I was having the same problem, since upgrading from
4.6-PRERELEASE to 4.8-STABLE yesterday.  This is despite having an
up-to-date pkg_info that supports -O.

Investigation revealed...

$ /usr/sbin/pkg_info -q -O archivers/unarj
pkg_info: package 8hz-mp3-0.2b has no origin recorded
pkg_info: /var/db/pkg/Mesa-3.0b6/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory

An rm -rf /var/db/pkg/Mesa-3.0b6 "fixed" the problem, and ports now
install normally.

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