problem with the ports system ?

[bruno schwander]

I decided to upgrade to 4.8, hope the problem will go away...

thanks everybody !

bruno

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Matthew Hunt wrote:

> 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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