Strange formatting error with pkg_info after using portupgrade
Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent
ardent at nebcorp.com
Thu Jun 19 19:23:17 PDT 2003
Hello, everyone, I have a fairly strange error, that has popped
up on both machines where I have used portupgrade (both 4.8-RELEASE
boxes). Here is an example output:
please:~> pkg_info |head
BitTorrent-3.2.1b "Peer to Peer file sharing/mirroring."Mesa-3.4.2_2
A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL
ORBit-0.5.17 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language
XFree86-4.3.0,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/meta-po
Note how Mesa's entry begins immediately after the last
character of BitTorrent's. The behavior seems to be that if a package
has been installed/upgraded with portupgrade, it eliminates the terminal
newline from the pkg_info listing. Running pkg_info with a particular
package as an argument works fine. pkgdb reports that the database is
uncorrupted and up-to-date. The only effect seems to be this fairly
annoying display bug, but nothing that is impairing the functionality of
the system in a serious way.
Thank you in advance for any help/insights/hints. Have a good
day.
-Joe
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