pkg_info +COMMENTS problem

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sat Oct 4 09:40:51 PDT 2003


On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:00:55PM -0400, srenna at vdbmusic.com wrote:
> Gave that a shot, but still seeing the same problem
> any other tips?

Perhaps the problem is that one or more of the pkg's doesn't have a
+COMMENT file at all.  Try this:

    # cd /var/db/pkg
    # find . -type d -mindepth 1 -print | sed -e 's,$,/+COMMENT,' | xargs touch -a

However, if there's a pkg installed on your system without a +COMMENT
file, either you're running a pretty old system, or you've somehow
installed a really old pkg.  You should probably just delete and
re-install any pkgs showing this symptom.

Other than that, you can try running 'pkgdb -Fvu' (from the
portupgrade(1) port) which should go a long way towards fixing any
prolems in the package DB.  If that fails, then it's a case of manual
inspection of the whole /var/db/pkg tree to see if you can spot what
is out of place.

	Cheers,

	Matthew 

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