make install, portupgrade, etc broken

[Jonathan]

Tim Kellers wrote:
I think we've got 2 threads mixed here, but to review.
> 
> I cvsupped July 11 and did a make buildworld, make buildkernel 
> KERNCON=CHANGLING, reboot make installworld, mergemaster on 3 different 
> boxes.  All is/was well on 2 of the 3 boxes, but on the third any/every make 
> install or portupgrade [filename] errors out with Error Code 1 right after 
> make install checks for a previous installation.  The option 
> FORCE_PKG_REGISTER="yes'" allows the installation to completesuccessfully, 
> the portupgrade -m  FORCE_PKG_REGISTER="yes'" switch also succeeds.  I NFS 
> mounted /usr/ports from the broken fileserver on a laptop (4.8-STABLE from 
> same cvs updated sources) and I can make install or portupgrade with no 
> errors at all.
> 
> pkg_info -q -O some/port on the laptop returns the package name of the 
> installed port
> 
> pkg_info -q -O some/port on the fileserver returns:
> 
> pkg_info: package cvsupd-bin-16.1 has no origin recorded
> pkg_info: package ghostscript-6.01_1 has no origin recorded
> pkg_info: /var/db/pkg/jdk-tutorial-1.1.8/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory

I found this on Google which might help:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-March/000349.html

which says:

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 > Upon attempts to use 'pkg_add' utility, I get a string of error messages
 > such as the following:
 >
 >    pkg_add: package wterm-6.2.7a1 has no origin recorded
 >    pkg_add: package wmtime-1.0b2 has no origin recorded
 >[...]

 > 2) Theories about what causes this condition.
 >    (Least important)

That's easy - the packages are old enough that they didn't record
their origin.

 > 1) The methodology by which I can correct this error condition.
 >    (Most important)

Installing newer versions of the packages is the obvious way. You can
also go into /var/db/pkg/wterm-6.2.7a1/+CONTENTS and add a line that
says "@comment ORIGIN:x11/wterm" after the @name line. There may be
other magic required as well, but this worked for the one I did it to.

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Regards,

Jonathan