portmaster and portmanager disagree

Mark Ovens marko at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 29 21:17:10 UTC 2007


Robert Noland wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:46 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
>> Tried updating all my ports - all 439 of them - sing ``portmanager -u''. 
>> Numerous failures, conflicts etc. as usual. Got most of them sorted but 
>> ``portmanager -s'' still reports a load as MISSING, but they aren't; the 
>> directories are in /var/db/pkg and the apps work.
> 
> I suspect that one of your /var/db/pkg entries is corrupt, try doing a
> "pkg_info" and note any errors that get reported.  Manually rebuild the
> port with the corrupted entry and then try portmanager again.
> 

Thanks for the response Robert, but unfortunately, pkg_info returns no 
errors.

Regards,

Mark


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