pkg_delete: package 'libvorbis-1.2.0,3' doesn't have a prefix

[Paul Chvostek]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:21:51AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Dan Langille p??e v st 28. 05. 2008 v 11:19 -0400:
> > [dan at ngaio:/var/db/pkg/libvorbis-1.2.0,3] $ ls -l
> > total 4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   32 May 28 03:11 +CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  137 May 28 03:02 +REQUIRED_BY
> > [dan at ngaio:/var/db/pkg/libvorbis-1.2.0,3] $
> 
> 32 byets of +CONTENTS file is awfully little. Can you paste the content
> of that file, for laughs? My copy of that +CONTENTS is over 10 kB...

I agree, that's too small.  :)

> You somehow winded up with "empty" package. Dunno why.

This has happened to me while /var ran out of disk while portupgrade was
running.  That can be hard to recover from, if you're missing your list
of origins.

I think the FORCE_PKG_REGISTER will be your recovery, but it would
definitely be good to find out what got you into this state.

-- 
  Paul Chvostek                                             <paul at it.ca>

  "To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light."
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