pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts acroread-3*'

[David Carter-Hitchin]

Hail,

pkg_info bombs on 4.8-RELEASE:

[512]->pkg_info
Mesa-3.2.1_1        A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL
ORBit-0.5.17_1      High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C
language
WordNet-1.7.1       Dictionaries and thesauri with devel. libraries (C,
TCL) an
XFree86-4.3.0,1     X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using
mini/meta-po
XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_2 XFree86-4 font server
XFree86-Server-4.3.0_12 XFree86-4 X server and related programs
XFree86-clients-4.3.0_5 XFree86-4 client programs and related files
XFree86-documents-4.3.0 XFree86-4 documentation
XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts
XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts
XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 XFree86-4 Cyrillic fonts
XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files
XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 XFree86-4 scalable fonts
XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 XFree86-4 libraries and headers
Xaw3d-1.5           A 3-D Athena Widget set that looks like Motif
Xft-2.1.2           A client-sided font API for X applications
aalib-1.4.r5_1      An ascii art library
pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts acroread-3*'

Anyone got a clue why this is happening?  Should I pkg_delete acroread-3
and reinstall?  I googled this one with no luck.

I'm trying to resolve some nasty problem with teTeX and dvips which were
working beautifully before I did a portupgrade -arR :-(  I need to know
exactly which versions of things are installed before removing them.  I'm
trying stuff like this:

[514]->pkg_delete dvips
pkg_delete: no such package 'dvips' installed
[515]->pkg_delete dvips-5.76
pkg_delete: package 'dvips-5.76' doesn't have a prefix
[516]->pkg_delete print/dvips-5.76
pkg_delete: package 'dvips-5.76' doesn't have a prefix

(I'm trying to get dvips-5.92b working without error, which is why I want
to remove dvips-5.76).

Thanks,
David.