portmaster and portmanager disagree
Robert Noland
rnoland at 2hip.net
Thu Mar 29 22:23:34 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:15 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:52 -0500, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > I thought I was the only one with these symptoms. Very much
> > like the ones you describe, and pkg_info is no help. Similarly
> > with the other build/upgrade/fixit tools. After several weeks '
> > of this, I've come to the conclusion that the upgrade side of
> > things is very busted. (****)
>
> Maybe you guys should stop use portmanager. I personal don't trust it.
I am the current maintainer of portmanager and I am not aware of any
issues. The first post indicated he was also having issues with
portmaster.
What aspect is it that you do not trust? It does a complete dependency
mapping to ensure that everything is in sync at any given point in time.
robert.
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
> > cheers!
> >
> > gary
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Mark
>
>
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