libiconv problems

[Bryan Drewery]

On 6/6/14, 1:18 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On June 6, 2014 at 12:46:09 PM -0500 Bryan Drewery 
> <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> On 6/6/14, 12:25 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>> According to UPDATING, I should be able to do this to resolve issues
>>> with libiconv:  pkg query %ro libiconv >ports_to_update
>>>
>>> On my system, running 8.4 RELEASE with the old packaging system, this
>>> command doesn't do anything.  I ran pkg_info to get a list of
>>> dependent apps and then piped that into xargs portmaster, but I got
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> # cat dependencies.txt | xargs portmaster
>>>
>>> ===>>> /var/db/pkg/Information does not exist
>>> ===>>> Aborting update
>>>
>>> ===>>> Killing background jobs
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> Terminated
>>> ===>>> Exiting
>>>
>>> So how can I fix this problem without updating to the new pkg system?
>>>
>> You don't.
>>
>> UPDATING says:
>> AFFECTS: 10-CURRENT users with any port depending on converters/libiconv
>>
>> 8.4 not affected, according to the entry.
>
> All well and good, except for one problem:
>
> ls /usr/ports/devel/libiconv*
> ls: /usr/ports/devel/libiconv*: No such file or directory
>
> And yes my ports are current.
>
It's a typo, should say converters/libiconv. I've fixed it.


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery