portmanager hosed

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:15 am, Brian John wrote:
> When I try to upgrade my ports I just get error messages.  Can
> someone help me out?  I'll paste the output below.
>
> Thanks
>
> /Brian
>
> su-2.05b# portmanager -u
> portmanager 0.2.6_5 info: executing rm -f
> /usr/local/share/portmanager/ports_cache.db
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- PMGRrStatus 0.2.6_5 info: Creating inital data bases
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>---
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- PMGRrStatus 0.2.6_5 info: looking for missing dependent ports
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>---
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- -=>MISSING<=- linux_base-8-8.0_6[/emulators/linux_base-8] may be a
> dependency of linuxpluginwrapper-20050119_1
> verifing dependency status of linux_base-8-8.0_6 (may take awhile) by
> executing command:
> cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper; make  all-depends-list
>   *  *  *  *
> linux_base-8-8.0_6 is indeed a missing dependency, adding to list of
> things to be updated
>   *  *  *  *
> checking for linux_base-8-8.0_6 dependencies that also may not be
> installed listing linux_base-8-8.0_6's known dependencies by
> executing command: cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8; make 

> all-depends-list *  *  *  *
> dependency -=>archivers/rpm
>         executing: cd /usr/portsarchivers/rpm; make describe
> cd: can't cd to /usr/portsarchivers/rpm
> make: don't know how to make describe. Stop

The path /usr/portsarchivers/rpm is mangled here. Sorry
about this it looks like a portmanager bug :(  I'll work on a fix
right away. 

-Mike