Cannot install any port

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Leonardo Lazarte wrote:

>
> Dear Tom,
>
>    Unfortunately you have found a problem which those
> in the know prefer to ignore.

This is not true.  Patches to fix this problem are currently being tested
on the ports build cluster.  I am also testing an alternate set of
patches.

>
>    The ports system has been broken with the last
> upgrade, and many of us which have found the same
> problem could not find a solution.

Only for older versions of FreeBSD.  FreeBSD 4.7 and greater do not have
this problem.

>
>    It has been suggested by some that you could copy
> pkg_info from some newer version. Other person suggested
> re-building pkg_install (in fact, it was incorrectly
> suggested to build pkg_info), after cvsuping src.
>

Assuming that was done correctly, it should have worked.  You would have
needed to cvsup a version of pkg_install that had -O support for pkg_info.

>    I tried both, with no luck.
>
>    I will go the hard way, re-installing the system, with
> a new version.

There are other options that were enumerated on this list as well as
ports at .  You could have reverted bsd.port.mk to an earlier version where
pkg_info -O was not used.

Joe

>
>    As a side note, I mentioned that I have been using
> FreeBSD for a decade (of course a rough estimate), and
> have been corrected by very knowledgeble (sp?) people
> in opposite directions. One said that FreeBSD was not
> yet ten years old, other said it was ten years three
> months. But still no help with a solution.
>
>    Regards,
>    Leonardo
>
> Tom Kraus wrote:
> > when I try to install any port, everything is looking OK, but after
> > while I got message like this:
> >
> > ===>  Checking if net/apinger already installed
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/net/apinger.
> >
> > ===>  Checking if databases/mysql40-client already installed
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-client.
> >
> > Where could be problem?
>
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