package x has no origin recorded

Christopher Nehren apeiron+usenet at coitusmentis.info
Thu Mar 24 11:40:59 PST 2005


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On 2005-03-24, Brooks Davis scribbled these
curious markings:
>> pkg_info: package bsdpan-Apache-DB-0.09 has no origin recorded
>> pkg_info: package bsdpan-Apache-DBI-0.94 has no origin recorded
>> pkg_info: package bsdpan-Apache-Module-0.11 has no origin recorded
>> pkg_info: package bsdpan-Apache-Sandwich-2.05 has no origin recorded
>> pkg_info: package bsdpan-Apache-Stage-1.20 has no origin recorded
>> pkg_info: package bsdpan-Archive-Tar-1.23 has no origin recorded
>>=20
> This means that those ports were installed directly rather then by the
> ports collection.

... which is very easily fixed by either using the available ports, if
any, or by making a new port. Making Perl ports has to be the easiest
way you can contribute to the FreeBSD project. I just submitted one
about 5-10 minutes ago, in fact (Digest::SHA256), and just had another
committed to the tree before that (PLP).

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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