portmaster: But really -- cairo's installed!

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 16:13:30 PST 2009


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Here's a bit more confusion from portmaster through the xorg upgrade
>> (saw it scroll by the screen ~ 4 times upgrading some packages):
>>
>>       ===>>> @pkgdep cairo-1.8.6,1 is listed as a dependency
>>       ===>>> but there is no installed version
>
> I only need one example. :)
>
>> [root at orangebox /usr/ports/x11/dri2proto]# ls /var/db/pkg/cairo-1.8.6,1/
>> +COMMENT      +CONTENTS       +DESC           +MTREE_DIRS     +REQUIRED_BY
>>
>>     Has this been seen before?
>
> The code to detect an installed port is very simple, and relies on the
> ORIGIN being correctly recorded in +CONTENTS. Can you look for a line
> like this in the cairo +CONTENTS file: @comment ORIGIN:
>
> If that line is there, please send me a copy of the +CONTENTS file and
> I'll try to figure out what's going wrong here. If it's not there, you
> have your answer.
>
> Doug

    Yes, the origin (oddly enough) is noted. +CONTENTS attached.
Thanks :),
-Garrett
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